CHR 633248 – Sophora longicarinata G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 633248
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
13 January 2014
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Sophora longicarinata G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Sophora longicarinata G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Glens of Tekoa Station, North Canterbury
Verbatim locality:
Glens of Tekoa Station, North Canterbury
Verbatim collector:
Miles Giller, Gillian Miller, Graeme Jane, Alice Shanks, Trevor Blogg and Alastair Macdonald
Standardised collector:
Miles Giller; Gillian Miller; Graeme Jane; Alice Shanks; T. Blogg; Alastair Macdonald
Verbatim date:
17 Nov 2013
Start date:
2013-11-17
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Ecological District:
Ashley
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1564200E 5264650N (WGS84 -42.769841 172.562405)
Altitudes:
from 550m
Habitat:
Several hundred plants of this kowhai occur, mature plants being up to c. 5 m tall (often less), forming near-continuous low forest along a pair of limestone ridges.Was found growing as forest or treeland (possibily depending on the degree of site disturbance as well as substrate), over hard limestone rock (often exposed, with rendzina soils in depressions and flatter areas), on hill-slopes otherwise dominated by secondary shrubland and tussockland grazed by sheep and cattle. The density is greatest on hard rocky substrates along the ridges, becoming more scattered on less rocky substrates off the ridges.
Microhabitat:
The trees frequently formed a continuous canopy though several native creepers (especially Parsonsia capsularis var. capsularis, P. capsularis var. rosea, Clematis afoliata, Rubus squarrosus and Scandia geniculata) were often prominent up into the canopy. Where space allowed other species included Aristotelia fruticosa, Coprosma propinqua, Hebe traversii, Melicytus aff. alpinus and Sophora prostrata (with which the Sophora longicarinata occasionally hybridised), over Poa cita, red fescue (Festuca rubra), over Asplenium trichomanes and Cystopteris tasmanica. The woody exotics Crataegus monogyna and Ribes uva-crispa were becoming locally abundant. Both the S. longicarinata and Coprosma species hosted the pygmy mistletoe Korthalsella clavata.
Notes:
The recruiting juvenile plants had no interfacing habit or yellowing of twigs, instead growing as erect plants from the outset. Leaflets appeared to be smaller and more numerous than that of most Sophora microphylla populations in the region. The plants had virtually finished flowering, thus had green developing pods (plus last years pods). There was evidence of recuitment.
Observed species:
Parsonsia capsularis
Parsonsia capsularis var. rosea
Clematis afoliata
Rubus squarrosus
Scandia geniculata
Aristotelia fruticosa
Coprosma propinqua
Hebe traversii
Melicytus aff. alpinus
Sophora prostrata
Poa cita
Festuca rubra
Asplenium trichomanes
Cystopteris tasmanica
Crataegus monogyna
Ribes uva-crispa
Korthalsella clavata
Parsonsia capsularis var. rosea
Clematis afoliata
Rubus squarrosus
Scandia geniculata
Aristotelia fruticosa
Coprosma propinqua
Hebe traversii
Melicytus aff. alpinus
Sophora prostrata
Poa cita
Festuca rubra
Asplenium trichomanes
Cystopteris tasmanica
Crataegus monogyna
Ribes uva-crispa
Korthalsella clavata
Specimen notes
Voucher:
Leaf sample removed for DNA analysis for Sophora micro-satellite project
Daniela Heidt, Apr-Sept 2014
Daniela Heidt, Apr-Sept 2014
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