Systematics Collections Data

CHR 570760 – Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.

Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 570760
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
08 February 2005
Database record updated:
22 July 2008
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2005-02 (Verbatim: Feb. 2005)
Preferred name:
Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.
Division:
Bryophyta
Class:
Bryatae
Family:
Funariaceae
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:
old Canterbury Sale Yards site, Addington, Christchurch
Verbatim collector:
AJ Healy & Rachelle Healy 04/10
Standardised collector:
Arthur J. Healy; Rachelle Healy
Verbatim date:
4 Febr. 2004
Start date:
2004-02-04
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
forming dense low communities on very dry shingly areas in clearings in tall dense mixed grass communities (Bromus sp, Hordeum sp., Festuca arundinacea).
Notes:
this moss has a distinctive reddish colour, and is perhaps the same species which formed dense communities on dry open aras with concrete chips & other debris on the old Addington Rail Workshops site nearby.
Permissions
Project permits
Reference:
CHR Collection - Local Contexts
Biocultural (BC) Notice