Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Solanum nigrum L.
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
Locally common. Growing on Makatea in Kermadec petrel colony. Usually admixed with Cyperus insularis. Plants mostly dead, or present as cotyledons due to cyclone damage. Morphologically rather variable. Stems purple-black (very occasionally bearing small hooks), foliage dark dirty green, pubescent (see AK 356524) or glabrous, flowers when present white, borne in pseudo-umbels; fruits when present quite large, black, dull rather than glossy, stone cells no evident in rehydrated material (material rehydrated 30 March 2015), calyces accrescent and appressed to fruit - very rarely partially reflexed. More common than S. nodiflorum. Identification confirmed from images sent of rehyrdated material from this collection to Peter Heenan (1 April 2015) and Sandra Knapp (BM, 1 April 2015). DUPLICATE TO: CHR
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
-29.2455, -177.85719
-177.85719, -177.85719
Last Update
01 Oct 2020
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