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Type of Achyranthes margaretarum de Lange [family AMARANTHACEAE]

Date Updated: 23 April 2013

Herbarium
Auckland War Memorial Museum Herbarium (AK), AK238188
Collection
Herbarium Specimens
Resource Type
Specimens
Collector
Peter de Lange, G M Crowcroft, #NF154
Collection Date
1998/11/11
Locality
Norfolk Island, Mission Road, Botanic Gardens 29° 15' South 167° 56' East
Country
Australia (Australia)
Collection altitude
140meters
Identifications
Type of Achyranthes margaretarum de Lange [family AMARANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Peter de Lange, 1998/11/11
Notes
HOLOTYPE. (Isotypes: CHR, K, NSW). Cultivated at Norfolk Island, Mission Road, Botanic Gardens from seed taken from the wild by M "Honey" McCoy in 1989. In the wild confined to Philip Island, where a small population, descended from 1 plant is establishing itself following rabbit eradication in 1986. A small shrub 1 x 1 m, sun foliage all of equal size, leaves bronze-coloured, tinged maroon with yellow veins, margins undulose, with twisted acumen. Inflorescences erect, maroon- tinged, very short. Fruits dark brown, turbinate. * G M Crowcroft
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Data last modified
2012-12-07
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