CHR 666740 – Carex pterocarpa Petrie
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 666740
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
09 May 2025
Database record updated:
09 May 2025
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Carex kirkii x C. pterocarpa
Determiner:
K.A. Ford
Identification date:
2022-12-07 (Verbatim: 7 Dec 2022)
Preferred name:
Carex pterocarpa Petrie
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Cyperales
Family:
Cyperaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Old Man Range, near Obelisk, at the head of Conroys Creek.
Verbatim locality:
Old Man Range, near Obelisk, at the head of Conroys Creek.
Verbatim collector:
K.A. Ford 1103/22
Standardised collector:
Kerry A. Ford
Collectors reference no.:
1103/22
Verbatim date:
7 Dec 2022
Start date:
2022-12-07
Land District:
Otago Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-45.31969000 169.21325900
New Zealand Transverse Mercator: 1303213.4E 4974556.5N (WGS84 -45.319683 169.213249)
New Zealand Transverse Mercator: 1303213.4E 4974556.5N (WGS84 -45.319683 169.213249)
Abundance:
Local
Altitudes:
from 1590m
Habitat:
Growing in fine flakey schist at stream edge (just coming out of a snow bank).
Abundance:
Local
Notes:
No fruit found, only two old inflorescences located. Habit very flat (plants collected just out of the snow melt); a creeping rhizome with short internodes. Leaf-blades yellow-brown, young leaves just starting to sprout, no sign of leaf-shoots.
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Lincoln, Landcare Research
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.640337 172.477044
Verbatim locality:
Landcare Research Nursery, Lincoln
Verbatim collector:
K.A. Ford
Standardised collector:
Kerry A. Ford
Verbatim date:
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Notes:
Cultivated plant has androgynous spikes, and deformed stamens, 3 stamens/flower.
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