CHR 658120 – Myrsine salicina Heward ex Hook.f.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 658120
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
16 December 2019
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Myrsine salicina Heward ex Hook.f.
Determiner:
Miles Giller
Identification date:
2019-08-29 (Verbatim: 29/8/2019)
Preferred name:
Myrsine salicina Heward ex Hook.f.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Primulales
Family:
Myrsinaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Kaikoura
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-42.399 173.674
Verbatim locality:
Kaikoura
Verbatim collector:
Jason Butt, Miles Giller, Heath Melville
Standardised collector:
Jason Butt; Miles Giller; Heath Melville
Verbatim date:
29/8/2019
Start date:
2019-08-29
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Marlborough Land District
Ecological District:
Kowhai
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1658850E 5312630N (WGS84 -42.336353 173.71436)
Altitudes:
from 20m
Habitat:
Growing as an understorey tree in secondary coastal hardwood forest beside a tiny copse of old-growth coastal podocarp-hardwood forest. The single plant had fallen over but retained sufficient access to light to persist, with shoots along the semi-prostrate trunk now growing towards the canopy. Originally c. 9 m tall, but less due to decumbent position. Diameter at original breast height c. 25 cm.
Dominated by emergent Dacrycarpus dacrydioides over Beilschmiedia tawa (growing at its southern east coast distributional limit) with Fuchsia excorticata, Melicytus ramiflorus and Dicksonia squarrosa (often supporting Ripogonum scandens) with Piper excelsum subsp. excelsum, various ferns and mosses.
Physically protected from livestock by isolation, nearby soft quaking surfaces, and by steep scarp topography.
Microhabitat:
Substrate: Growing near the base of a semi-coastal scarp in saturated organic and eroding stony material, with very little structure, derived from uplifted wave-rounded former beach deposits.
Notes:
A single plant (small tree). Legally protected by way of a QEII covenant.
Unless there are other plants nearby to produce seed, this location may not support Myrsine salicina in the long term.
Observed species:
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
Beilschmiedia tawa
Fuchsia excorticata
Melicytus ramiflorus
Dicksonia squarrosa
Piper excelsum subsp. excelsum
Beilschmiedia tawa
Fuchsia excorticata
Melicytus ramiflorus
Dicksonia squarrosa
Piper excelsum subsp. excelsum
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