Specimen Details

CHR 674514 – Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

Data provider:

Allan Herbarium

Barcode:

CHR 674514

Specimen type:

Sheet

Database record added:

18 March 2022

Database record updated:

24 February 2023

Components

Primary component

Active identification

Determined name:

Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

Determiner:

K.A. Ford

Identification date:

2020-12-07 (Verbatim: 7 Dec 2020)

Preferred name:

Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

Division:

Magnoliophyta

Class:

Liliopsida

Order:

Cyperales

Family:

Cyperaceae

Identification type:

Determination

Collection events

Primary collection event

Collection event type:

Field

Standard locality

Location:

Opotiki, Waiotahe Beach

Georeferences:

Latitude and Longitude (WGS84): -37.993 177.24

Verbatim locality:

Bay of Plenty, Waiotahe Beach, near Opotiki.

Verbatim collector:

K.A. Ford 837/20

Standardised collector:

Kerry A. Ford

Collectors reference no.:

837/20

Verbatim date:

7 Dec 2020

Start date:

2020-12-07

Country:

New Zealand

Land District:

Gisborne Land District

Native lands:

Whakatōhea

Georeferences:

New Zealand Transverse Mercator: 1972210E 5786625N (WGS84 -37.991683 177.238002)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84): -37.991691 177.238001

Abundance:

Occasional

Altitudes:

from 2m

Habitat:

sand, foredune; before tall shrubbery

Abundance:

Occasional

Notes:

Stiffish tufts to tussocks; leaf-sheaths red-rose to brown; leaf-blades orange, channeled. Super fine culms which are very finely scabrid. Mature (last seasons) culms = 80 cm. This year floewring but not elongated yet. This is the same as my collections from Coromandel and north of Auckland.

Observed species:

Muehlenbeckia complexa
Arrhenatherum elatius
Ficinia spiralis
Lagurus ovatus
Spinifex sericeus

Duplicates

WELT:

Direction:

Sent

Permissions

Project permits

Project title:

Biological specimens housed at Manaaki Whenua: Te rohe o Whakatōhea

Reference:

Local Contexts - Whakatohea