Right at Holdsworth Lookout (top of Holdsworth Lookout Trail), Taraua Mountains
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-40.9123 175.475
Verbatim locality:
Right at Holdsworth Lookout (top of Holdsworth Lookout Trail), Taraua Mountains
Verbatim collector:
C Bush & S Wagstaff 473
Standardised collector:
C. Bush; S. J. Wagstaff
Verbatim date:
April 8 2008
Start date:
2008-04-08
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāti Kahungunu
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa - Tāmaki Nui ā Rua
Rangitāne
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
40°54.74´ S 175°28.511´ E (WGS84 -40.912333 175.475183)
Abundance:
Local
Altitudes:
from 589m
Habitat:
At lookout, there was more sun exposure and more plants that had fruits (and larger plants). Open rock outcrop area, rocky gravel, shallow soil, N-facing. Other Gaultheria rupestris plants in the area were taller than this plant but those were not fruiting.
Abundance:
Local
Notes:
~ 30 cm tall. Branchlets have black, thick wide hairs. Many axillary racemes, dry fruit, dry calyx.