Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Digitaria setigera Roem. & Schult.
Classification
Family
Genus
Species
Specimen Category
Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
New Zealand, Kermadec Ecological Region and District, Kermadec Islands Nature Reserve, Northern Kermadec Islands Group, Herald Islets, Dayrell Island
Field Collection Date
18 May 2011
Field Collection Notes
Common grass growing in coral makatea vegetation, petrel scrub and especially with purslane (Portulaca oleracea) growing under Kermadec pohutukawa (Metrosideros kermadecensis) on the islands summit cap of basaltic tuff and scoriaceous material. Mostly present as seedlings and at this stage initially difficult to distinguish from Lepturus repens. Although treated as naturalised to New Zealand this is difficult to understand when it is indigenous to the rest of the Pacific Islands and virtually confined in the Kermadec Islands to the sea bird islands off Raoul Island.
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
-29.2455, -177.85719
-177.85719, -177.85719
Last Update
16 May 2017
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