CHR 655045 – Stellaria apetala Ucria
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 655045
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
07 January 2019
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Stellaria pallida (Dumort.) Crép.
Determiner:
R.D. Smissen
Identification date:
2018-11-29 (Verbatim: 29 Nov 2018)
Preferred name:
Stellaria apetala Ucria
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Caryophyllaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Whanganui, 8 Virginia Heights, on berm
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
R22 832 417 (WGS84 -39.912443 175.026003)
Verbatim locality:
Whanganui, 8 Virginia Heights, outside on berm
Verbatim collector:
C.C. Ogle 6603
Standardised collector:
Colin C. Ogle
Verbatim date:
2 Oct 2018
Start date:
2018-10-02
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Native lands:
Ngā Rauru Kītahi
Whanganui Iwi / Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi
Whanganui Land Settlement (Lower Whanganui)
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
R22 832 417 (WGS84 -39.912443 175.026003)
Abundance:
Local
Altitudes:
from 70m
Habitat:
Open mown lawn - clay over old dune sand (maybe dumped from earthworks in past). Slight slope, full sun, dry.
Abundance:
Local
Keywords:
Clay; Dry; Exposed; Lowland; Mat; Open; Slope; Sunny; Turf; Unconsolidated
Notes:
Flower/fruit. Sepals and pedicels hirsute, line of hairs on stems. Leaves glabrous exstipulate. Flowers with 5 free sepals (no petals seen), ovary with 3 styles, seeds curved, tuberculate. Common.
Observed species:
Poa annua
Sagina procumbens
Aphanes inexspectata
Sagina procumbens
Aphanes inexspectata
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Ana Podolyan has generated some spotless ITS sequences for Colin's collection. Comparing them with GenBank sequences I think they are a good match for Stellaria pallida. There are a couple of provisos. First there are some sequences in GenBank as S. media that are at least as good a match. However, these are from sources I would not consider reliable (barcoders not Caryophyllaceae researchers). After these the best Blast matches (in order of sequence identity to the sample) are S. pallida, S. neglecta, S. chinensis, S. media (from reputable sources). The first three of these are all much of a muchness, but there is a drop off in similarity to the reliable S. media sequences. Since Colin's plant does not fit S. neglecta or S. chinensis that's probably a pretty strong result.
So my suspicion and Peter Heenan's more considered opinion, and the sequences all agree it is probably Stellaria pallida.
A New species for New Zealand.
R.D. Smissen, 29 Nov 2018
R.D. Smissen, 29 Nov 2018
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