New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1753649E 5928912N (WGS84 -36.773125 174.721683)
Notes:
Plant Register ID: 2009/0032Infestation covers 8 properties in a suburban area, approx 80 - 90 m x 30 -40 mMPI Accesion No.: CK 001
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to D
Supplementary remarks:
stamens 8; 3 branched style, stigma's capitate; similar to Fallopia japonica "Compactum' with red stems, petioles & veins, and smaller than usual leaves but, has bisexual flowers and lacks pit on dorsal side of petiole, and blotches on some leaves.
W.R. Sykes, 22 Sep 2009
Supplementary remarks:
Chloroplast sequence data analysis (best genebank match in %): rbcL: 100 % match to Polygonum chinense, 99 % match to Persicaria microcephala, 97 % match to Fallopia multiflora; trnL-trnF: 99 % match to Polygonum chinense and Persicaria capitata;
ITS sequence data analysis (730 bp, best genebank match in %): 100 % match to Polygonum chinense, 98 % match to Persicaria microcephala.
Dagmar Goeke & Gary Houliston, 8 Feb 2013