following Druce CG 1914: Supplement to Botanical Exchange Club Report for 1913. Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles. Report. Manchester, England 3(5): 405-440
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Gnidia polystachya Berg.
Determiner:
WR Sykes
Identification date:
2012-01-16 (Verbatim: 16 Jan 2012)
Preferred name:
Gnidia squarrosa (L.) Druce
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Whanganui, Bastia Hill, Mount View Road
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-39.9266 175.066
Verbatim locality:
Wanganui City, Bastia Hill, 115 Mt View Rd
Verbatim collector:
I Bell; C C Ogle 5938
Standardised collector:
I. Bell; Colin C. Ogle
Verbatim date:
23 Oct 2011
Start date:
2011-10-23
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Whanganui Iwi / Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi
Whanganui Land Settlement (Lower Whanganui)
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
R22 887 400 (WGS84 -39.926592 175.090794)
Abundance:
Local
Altitudes:
from 90m
Habitat:
Garden on marine terrace remnant. Growing between limestone blocks and gravel.
flowerPlanted shrub and self-sown seedlings. Seed imported by Ron Duncan, nurseryman, New Plymouth, in 1960s.Planted shrub 0.6 m tall. Seedlings locally common & frequent. Flowers' tepal tube pale yellow, c. 12 mm long, constricted across middle. Anthers 8, filaments very short, attached at mouth of tube between "scales". Floral lobes 4, spread 6-7 mm pale yellow. Leaves flat above, somewhat keeled below, with small apiculus. Stomata both surfaces; O veins visible; glabrous. Stems with long white anthrorse hairs. A 'gland' (?) at proximal base of petiole. Ovary flattened, oblong, hairs at tip, style assymetrical.