Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Frullania
Classification
Family
Genus
Specimen Category
Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
Cook Islands, Rarotonga, Maungatea Bluffs, Maungatea Ridgeline
Field Collection Date
07 Jul 2010
Field Collection Notes
On the trunk of neinei (Fitchia speciosa) within a thick, low windswept shrubland dominated by kaiatea (Weinmannia samoensis), pua (Fagraea berteroana), rata (Metrosideros collina agg.) and kiekie (Freycinetia arborescens) with an understory of tuanu'e (Dicranopteris linearis). Associated with Heterodermia sp., Sticta caperata, Pseudocyphellaria argyracea, P. intricata and P. homalosticta.
Field Collector
Last Update
05 Oct 2020
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