Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.32659 171.683207
Verbatim locality:
1 ml S. of Lake Lyndon, Selwyn Co., Canterbury
Verbatim collector:
R. & E.F. Melville 6165
Standardised collector:
R. Melville; E. F. Melville
Verbatim date:
21.1.1962
Start date:
1962-01-21
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Altitudes:
from 808m
Habitat:
On a bed of tarn, below Rabbit Hill at 2650 ft altitude. On grey wacke shingle with Epilobium spp. & Acaena spp.
Notes:
Decumbent herb, capsules black with rows of white hairs in the sutures.
Observed species:
Epilobium spp. Acaena spp.
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
Ex Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew
Ex herbario kewensi
Flora of New Zealand
Collected during the tenure of a Senior Research Fellowship of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, N.Z.