CHR 624206 – Persicaria microcephala 'Red Dragon'
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 624206
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
12 December 2012
Database record updated:
13 February 2013
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Persicaria microcephala 'Red Dragon'
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Persicaria microcephala 'Red Dragon'
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Polygonales
Family:
Polygonaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Amin Pathan
Standardised collector:
Amin Pathan
Verbatim date:
6 December 2012
Start date:
2012-12-06
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
sold at a nursery in New Zealand.A number of Persicaria species (probably ornamental hybrids) were sold in NZ by a number of nurseries since the 1990s under different variety name (Red Dragon is a good example) and may have gone undetected.Nursery label: Persicaria microccephala Red Dragon. Unusually marked burgundy foliage. Accent plant. Part shade. 75 x 75 cm.
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
DNA examination undertaken by Dagmar Goeke.
Schönberger I, 12 December 2012
Schönberger I, 12 December 2012
Supplementary remarks:
Chloroplast sequence data analysis (best genebank match in %): rbcL: 100 % match to Persicaria microcephala and 99 % match to Polygonum chinense; trnL-trnF: 100 % match to Polygonum chinense and 99 % match to Persicaria capitata.
Dagmar Goeke & Gary Houliston, 8 Feb 2013
Dagmar Goeke & Gary Houliston, 8 Feb 2013
Duplicates
DAO:
Direction:
Sent
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