CHR 541763 A – Echium pininana Webb & Berthel.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 541763 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
17 April 2001
Database record updated:
23 January 2003
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Echium pininana Webb & Berth.
Determiner:
WR Sykes
Identification date:
1980-01-29 (Verbatim: 29-1-1980)
Preferred name:
Echium pininana Webb & Berthel.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Boraginaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Echium
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Echium L.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Christchurch, Riccarton, 98 Rattray Street
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.5152 172.586
Verbatim locality:
98 Rattray St. Riccarton
Verbatim collector:
AJ Healy 71/307
Standardised collector:
Arthur J. Healy
Verbatim date:
29-12-1971
Start date:
1971-12-29
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Plant 16ft. tall: large leaves from base of inflorescence: stem naked with leaf scars below inflorescence. Young seedlings with black-based hairs. Flowers pink - jade blue to purplish. ±3 months period of flowering of each branch in inflorescence: calyces nearest infl. axis ripened and nutlets shed, flowers opening at ends of branches, with dead flowers and ripening calyces in intermediate portion of branches. Flowering material of the species recorded in "The Natural History of New Zealand - An Ecological Survey" ed. G.R. Williams. 1973.p.180. Original Riverton specimen (non-fl.) in BD. herbarium, together with stem sections. Aside from gathering from Riverton, this species has been collected from Bluff, Timaru and Ashley River, near Rangiora. There appears two flower forms - one with fls. opening pink to red, fading blue to purplish, the other opening blue to purple, fading red to pink. AJ Healy 7/8/1979 Sheets A to B
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