CHR 678558 – Isolepis setacea (L.) R.Br.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 678558
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
28 October 2022
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Isolepis setacea (L.) R.Br.
Determiner:
K.A. Ford
Identification date:
2021-03-04 (Verbatim: 4 Mar 2021)
Preferred name:
Isolepis setacea (L.) R.Br.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Cyperales
Family:
Cyperaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
West of Coopers Creek
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.2845 172.079
Verbatim locality:
West of Coopers Creek
Verbatim collector:
Miles Giller
Standardised collector:
Miles Giller
Verbatim date:
14 Jan 2021
Start date:
2021-01-14
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Ecological District:
Oxford
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1525805E 5207865N (WGS84 -43.278373 172.08558)
Altitudes:
from 330m
Habitat:
Locally established throughout a grazed spring-head-wetland. Usually occurring as discrete plants, with occasional larger clusters (1 m x 1 m or more). Growing as scattered individuals (sometimes clustered) among clubrush, rushes, other wetland flora, and exotic pasture species. Heavy soils over a clay base, on the toe of a gentle hill just above the Canterbury plains. Soils are generally moist to saturated, with occasional areas of soft and slightly quaking deposits. The site has previously been developed as a farm paddock however the saturation of the ground has resulted in wetland species generally asserting dominance over pasture species. The site would originally have supported wetland forest dominated by black beech, kahikatea and pokaka (fragments of which persist nearby).
Microhabitat:
The wetland is dominated by emergent rushes (Juncus spp.) over Eleocharis acuta, Centella uniflora, Gonocarpus micranthus, Leptostigma setulosum, Microtis unifolia, Juncus articulatus, Ranunculus repens and mosses. Other flora growing sporadically beside Isolepis setacea includes Schoenus pauciflorus, Celmisia gracilenta and Hypericum pusillum. Drier margins (up-slope) are dominated by exotic grasses, mosses and Leptostigma setulosum.
Notes:
Proposed QEII covenant 'Miles Bush & Wetland'
Observed species:
Juncus sp.
Eleocharis acuta
Centella uniflora
Gonocarpus micranthus
Leptostigma setulosum
Microtis unifolia
Juncus articulatus
Ranunculus repens
Isolepis setacea
Schoenus pauciflorus
Celmisia gracilenta
Hypericum pusillum
Leptostigma setulosum
Eleocharis acuta
Centella uniflora
Gonocarpus micranthus
Leptostigma setulosum
Microtis unifolia
Juncus articulatus
Ranunculus repens
Isolepis setacea
Schoenus pauciflorus
Celmisia gracilenta
Hypericum pusillum
Leptostigma setulosum
Assigned reference numbers
Plant Identification Number:
2020/0481
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