CHR 82631 A – Erica arborea L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 82631 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
14 September 2005
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Erica arborea
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1977-10-06 (Verbatim: 6/10/1977)
Preferred name:
Erica arborea L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Ericales
Family:
Ericaceae
Identification type:
Confirmation
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Erica cf arborea
Determiner:
AJ Healy
Identification date:
1953-05-21 (Verbatim: 21:5:1953)
Preferred name:
Erica arborea L.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Haywards Hill, Hutt Valley
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-41.1406 174.96
Verbatim locality:
Haywards Hill, Hutt Valley
Verbatim collector:
AJ Healy 53/770
Standardised collector:
Arthur J. Healy
Verbatim date:
18:5:1953
Start date:
1953-05-18
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
R27 74- 05- (WGS84 -41.140577 174.959836)
Habitat:
in fern and scrub
Notes:
Branchlets with mostly branched hairs, simple hairs only on raised portion of stem below attachment of petiole.Leaves in whorls of 3's: lamina 6-6.5mm. long, petiole 0.5-0.75mm. long. T.S [see diagram on supplementary note]: upper surface plane, asperous on margin. Lamina bright shining green, petiole light-yellowish-green.Flowers in groups of 3's, terminal on branchlets. Pedicellate, pedicels curved, fls drooping. At point of attachment of 3 pedicels, a whorl of 3 hyaline, leaf-like bracts (triangular, ± 1mm. long, ±0.5mm. wide basally, ciliate on margins, keeled near apex, keel greenish - tinged.Pedicels 3-4mm. long with whorl of 3 bracts ± 1mm. from point of common origin: grooved, and often ± spinally twisted.Calyx ± 1.25mm. long, whitish, lobes joined basally for ± ¼ of length: lobes 4, hooded, ciliate margins.Corolla white, occas. with pink tinge: 4-loved. 3-3.5mm. long, loves ± 1.0 mm. long, obtuse to bifid, margins erose.Style 1.5mm. long, exserted.Stigma capitate, greenish to greenish-white.Stamens 8, ± 2.5 mm. long overall.Filaments ± 1.25 mm. long, hood at base, tapering above, whitish or hyaline, with central brownish line, glabous.Anthers brownish, ± 1.25mm. long, opening in upper half by slits or pores: appendaged at base.Pollen small, whitish, grains single.[illegible] Bailey (Manual of Cult. Plants, 1949 :762) this plant would fall under E. arborea L.Branchlets
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
Georeference (derived):
Estimated map ref.: NZMS 260 R27 74- 05-
Cruickshank J., 14.9.05
Cruickshank J., 14.9.05
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