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Austroderia splendens

natural science
Austroderia splendens, AK372457, © Auckland Museum CC BY

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  • Classifier
  • Scientific Name
    Austroderia splendens (Connor) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
  • Classification
  • Family
  • Genus
  • Species
  • Specimen Category
  • Storage Method
  • Field Collection Place
  • Locality Description
    New Zealand, North Island, Parengarenga Harbour, Kokota Spit, near the tip
  • Field Collection Date
    22 Nov 2018
  • Field Collection Notes
    Locally common scattered clumps on sanddunes, old fruiting culms still present, rather erct and twice as tall as the leaves. Bare moving sand covering most of the spit, with scattered clumps of spinifex, pingao, oioi, marram grass, Carex pumila, Ozothamnus, fleabane; Lachnagrostis and Coprosma acerosa were more local. A 2m clump of Yucca (small spiny leaves) seen in one place. No pampas (although it was present close by behind Karerewaka Beach) and no Calystegia soldanella seen.
    Collected during a Wananga with Ngati Kuri
  • Field Collector
  • Field Collection latitude/longitude
    -34.52803, 172.9705 (± 10 m)
    172.9705, 172.9705 (± 10 m)

  • Last Update
    29 Jul 2020

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