Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Ranunculus flammula L.
Classification
Family
Genus
Species
Specimen Category
Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
New Zealand, North Island, Rodney District, Rahuikiri Road, north of main Pakiri beach access road, Auckland council wetland No.M7 called "Digby's Slough"
Field Collection Date
03 Mar 2011
Field Collection Notes
Part of council wetland monitoring programme, land collective with four owners. Ranunculus growing across surface of a permanently wet old dune hollow, now vegetated by rank grassland and wetland species, abundant. Some grazing but owners keen to restore. Many large black leeches, Richardsonianus mauiensis? Ranunculus growing with Eleocharis spathulata and E. acuta, Persicaria maculosa, Paspalum distichum, Juncus articulatus, and Ludwigia palustris
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
-36.22, 174.69028
174.69028, 174.69028
Last Update
09 Aug 2017
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