CHR 529797 B – Watsonia versfeldii J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 529797 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
21 December 1999
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
[Watsonia versefeldii J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus]
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2008-05-19 (Verbatim: 19-5-2008)
Preferred name:
Watsonia versfeldii J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Liliales
Family:
Iridaceae
Identification type:
Confirmation
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Watsonia versefeldii J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
Determiner:
WR Sykes (prov.)
Identification date:
1999-12-03 (Verbatim: 3-12-1999)
Preferred name:
Watsonia versfeldii J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
Watsonia
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Watsonia Mill.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-36.905 174.647
Verbatim locality:
Waikumete Cemetery
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 368/97
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
30-Nov-1997
Start date:
1997-11-30
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāti Tamaoho
Ngāti Tamaterā
Ngāti Whātua
Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei
Te Ākitai Waiohua
Te Kawerau a Maki
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
R 11 573 764 (WGS84 -36.902423 174.648582)
Habitat:
Amongst old graves, in broad grassy paths and between gravestones.
Notes:
Cormous herb with distichous leaves. Corm not collected. Inflorescence stems erect, to about 1m high, rosy-purple. Bracts strongly marked same colour. Flowers more or less erect. Perianth 5.5-7cm long, pink; tube 3-4cm long, straight nearly, gradually ampliate, deeper pink than lobes. Lobes 2.5-3.7cm long, narrow oblong or oblong-elliptic; inner lobes 0.6-0.9cm wide; limb almost regular; lowest lobe a little longer than others. Filaments pink; anthers dark purple. Stigmas pink, greater than anthers. (A member of the Watsonia borbonica group. See:- Goldblatt.P. The genus Wastonia, P.37-38. 1989 - [Sykes WR 3.12.1999]). Sheets A to B.
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