Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Database record added:
01 February 2005
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Determined name:
Coprosma fowerakeri D.A.Norton & de Lange
Determiner:
DA Norton , PJ de Lange
Identification date:
2003-06 (Verbatim: Jun 2003)
Preferred name:
Coprosma fowerakeri D.A.Norton & de Lange
Identification type:
Determination
Collection event type:
Field
Location:
South Island, Puketeraki Ecological Region, Craigieburn Forest Park, end of ridge running southeast from Hamilton Peak
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.137 171.72
Verbatim locality:
South Island, Puketeraki Ecological Region, Craigieburn Forest Park, end of ridge running southeast from Hamilton Peak
Verbatim collector:
DA Norton , PJ de Lange 5411
Standardised collector:
D. A. Norton; Peter J. de Lange
Verbatim date:
02 May 2002
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Ecological District:
Craigieburn
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
K34 059 848 (WGS84 -43.137005 171.72025)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
43°8´ S 171°43´ E (WGS84 -43.133333 171.716667)
Notes:
Female specimen in fruit. Amongst boulders at base of active scree. Plants decumbent, producing trailing branches up to 1m long and 0.5m tall. Branches stout, recurved "whip-like", leaves yellow-green to bronze-green, fruit bright orange. Growing with Dracophyllum prostratum, D. uniflorum, Hebe pinguifolia, Chionochloa macra and Podocarpus nivalis. This Coprosma is dominant at this site.DUPLICATES TO: BM, CANB, CANU, CHR, HO, MEL, NSW, P, WELT
Herbarium history:
Duplicate of AK 256490. Auckland Museum Herbarium, Auckland, New Zealand.
Type:
ISOTYPE of Coprosma fowerakeri D.A.Norton & de Lange
cited NZ Journal of Botany 41:224 (2003).