CHR 624214 – Festuca filiformis Pourr.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 624214
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
03 December 2013
Database record updated:
11 February 2024
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Festuca filiformis Pourr.
Determiner:
H. Maule
Identification date:
2012-12-12 (Verbatim: 12 Dec 2012)
Preferred name:
Festuca filiformis Pourr.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Cyperales
Family:
Gramineae
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
Conf.: K.A. Ford, 27/11/2013
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Lagoon Creek, Te Anau, Southland
Verbatim locality:
Lagoon Creek, Te Anau, Southland
Verbatim collector:
Randall Milne
Standardised collector:
Randall Milne
Verbatim date:
5 Dec 2012
Start date:
2012-12-05
Land District:
Southland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1196795E 4944462N (WGS84 -45.536493 167.835621)
Abundance:
Common
Habitat:
Terrace on 'Wilderness' type soils, modified native subshrub-grassland with intermittent young bog pine (Halocarpus bidwillii), broom (Cytisus scoparius) and exotic grasses (Festuca rubra, Anthoxanthum odoratum, and Holcus lanatus) and lichen species. This site may have been subject to stock grazing in the past (it is immediately adjacent to farmland), but currently only lightly grazed by rabbits.
Abundance:
Common
Notes:
Near The Wilderness Scientific Reserve, but not within the legal reserve designation.Root system: grows in tufts; roots fineSmall tufting grass 25 - 30 cm tall; leaves fine; bright green in spring acquiring a purple cast later as they dry out over summer. Flowers borne above leaves on culms ranging from 40 - 50 cm tall.
Observed species:
Halocarpus bidwillii
Cytisus scoparius
Festuca rubra
Anthoxanthum odoratum
Holcus lanatus
Cytisus scoparius
Festuca rubra
Anthoxanthum odoratum
Holcus lanatus
Assigned reference numbers
Plant Identification Number:
2012/0342
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