Systematics Collections Data

CHR 584263 A – Gastrodia molloyi Lehnebach & J.R.Rolfe

Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 584263 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
13 February 2009
Database record updated:
05 April 2024
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Gastrodia molloyi Lehnebach & J.R.Rolfe
Determiner:
Joe Dillon (Victoria University of Wellington)
Identification date:
2024-04 (Verbatim: April 2024)
Preferred name:
Gastrodia molloyi Lehnebach & J.R.Rolfe
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Orchidales
Family:
Orchidaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Gastrodia "long column"
Determiner:
B.P.J. Molloy
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Gastrodia molloyi Lehnebach & J.R.Rolfe
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Christchurch, Belfast, The Groynes
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):  -43.45  172.599 
Verbatim locality:
The Groynes, Harewood, Christchurch
Verbatim collector:
B.P.J. Molloy
Standardised collector:
Brian P. J. Molloy
Verbatim date:
2 Jan 1991
Start date:
1991-01-02
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):  -43.449  172.599 
Habitat:
Under willows, Coprosma, (planted natives), blackberry, Blechnum minus.
Notes:
Locally plentiful. Populations have been on this site for as long as I can remember. [Dissected on card]: 1 plant, the most advanced. Others as large or larger, or smaller to come. This plants flower stem 57 x 1.0 cm. 57 flowers. 6-8 aborted or small. Stigma greenish. Rhizome large at base 12 x 3.5 cm. Sl. sweetish potato taste - watery, crisp creamy brown. Flowers (Perianth) gold, suffused with greenish brown areas with gold knobs or mottles gold most noticable dorsally. Faint perfume (stronger in other plants), petals creamy white. Column creamy white, anther pale gold. Labellum creamy white with orange ridges and basal callus. Ovary short, greenish, pale brown septa - knobs.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A, B (Spirit: 4-00029), C
Voucher (cyto):
2n = 38-40 Microscope Slide Nos. 1611, 1612 Counted by MI Dawson, April 1991
Specimen links
Is Part Of:
CHR 584263 C
4-00029
Permissions
Project permits
Project title:
Local Contexts - Allan Herbarium (CHR)
Reference:
CHR Collection - Local Contexts
Biocultural (BC) Notice