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.