Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Rosa rubiginosa L.
Classification
Family
Genus
Species
Specimen Category
Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
New Zealand, North Island, Waikato Ecological Region, Meremere Ecological District, Opuatia wetland, just north of Lake Whangape, just east of the small "Lake Opuatia"
Field Collection Date
19 Nov 2005
Field Collection Notes
Occasional in a thicket of 6m tall hawthorn on a sandy ridge in peat bog. Erect, to 2m tall, occasional seedlings also present. Flowers pale pink; 5m from a single clump of presumed planted Bambusa oldhamii (c.3m across x 8m tall) "old site of a still" PdL.
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
-37.43833, 175.06528
175.06528, 175.06528
Last Update
22 Nov 2016
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