Castle Hill Basin, near Gorge Hill, close to confluence of Porter and Thomas Rivers
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1498125E 5215395N (WGS84 -43.207348 171.745901)
Verbatim locality:
Castle Hill Basin, near Gorge Hill, close to confluence of Porter and Thomas Rivers
Verbatim collector:
P.B. Heenan s.n.; P.J. de Lange
Standardised collector:
Peter B. Heenan; Peter J. de Lange
Verbatim date:
16 Nov 2017
Start date:
2017-11-16
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1498125E 5215395N
Altitudes:
from 650m
Habitat:
Fine grained limestone scree amongst low limestone bluffs and boulders.
Notes:
Very thick, fleshy, green-grey leaves, flowers very large (petals c. 10 mm long), magnificent flowering plants. Much larger in all parts than Cardamine glara. About 25 plants at this site. Falcon pair and young bird nesting on limestone bluff at this site.
Specimen notes
Voucher (DNA):
Leaf material removed for DNA analysis contributing to the Brassicaceae Tree of Life (BrassiToL) by Ines Schonberger Jan. 2024; Principle investigator: Kasper Hendriks, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, The Netherlands.