Upper slopes of Mt Coates, near D'Archiac, Mt Cook region
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.475 170.59
Verbatim locality:
Upper slopes of Mt Coates, near D'Archiac, Mt Cook region
Verbatim collector:
H.D. Wilson 1596 & W. Logeman
Standardised collector:
Hugh D. Wilson; W. Logeman
Verbatim date:
15 . 1 . 1971
Start date:
1971-01-15
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Altitudes:
from 2286m
Habitat:
In deep damp crannies of nival zone, firm red rock
Notes:
Small green cushions.
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
The K. W. Allison Colleciton No. 10,090
Supplementary remarks:
A small but correctly named (by K.W. Allison) scrap of this species has been seen from 2300 m (7550 ft), which is the highest elevation record I have seen for this species.
Allan Fife, August 2017
Supplementary remarks:
Growing with Isopterygium pulchellum as a soil covering.
K.W.A. [Allison KW]