CHR 640282 – Persea americana Mill.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 640282
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
06 January 2016
Database record updated:
15 January 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Persea americana Mill.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2005-09-28 (Verbatim: 28 Sep 2005)
Preferred name:
Persea americana Mill.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Laurales
Family:
Lauraceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Mitiaro, Atai Foodland on road to Taurangi Foodland
Verbatim locality:
Mitiaro, Atai Foodland on road to Taurangi Foodland
Verbatim collector:
C.M. Luttrell 299; S. Swabey
Standardised collector:
C. M. Luttrell; S. Swabey
Collectors reference no.:
299
Verbatim date:
30 Jul 1991
Start date:
1991-07-30
Country:
Cook Islands
Altitudes:
from 6m
Habitat:
Growing under Cocos, good soil but rooted in rock. Ground vegetation: Morinda citrifolia, False elephant's foot [Elephantopus spicatus], Stachytarpheta, Oplimenus, Nephrolepis.
Notes:
6 m tall. Leaves dark green, prominent light vein underneath. Leaves alternate, spiralling in terminal clusters, curled upwards. Petioles 2.5 cm, round green stem. Greeny lichen growing on bark.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Expedition: Oxford University Expedition to the Cook Islands 1991. (Botanical Survey Mitiaro, 23rd June - 15th August 1991).
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