following: Sykes WR in Webb et al 1988. Flora of New Zealand Vol. IV: 1252 .
Identification
Determined name:
Solanum americanum Mill. (?)
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Solanum americanum Mill.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Old Canterbury Sale Yards, Addington, Christchurch
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.537096 172.610124
Verbatim locality:
Lester Street end of old Canterbury Sale Yards site, Addington, Christchurch
Verbatim collector:
AJ Healy 01/53
Standardised collector:
Arthur J. Healy
Verbatim date:
26/4/2001
Start date:
2001-04-26
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
bushy plant. ± 0.50m tall, in sand underlay to concrete block paving of covered pig pens (removed some months ago)
Notes:
Only plant observed in whole of site. Inflorescences both cymes and umbels: corolla smaller than S. nigrum complex; growing with Amaranthus powellii, Chenopodium murale, Solanum nigrum From seed in sand, bird deposited or in pig dung?.