Saturday, June 19, 2010

A native grass; not just new to ME.

"The tall native grass growing along the bank on your block has been identified in Melbourne as Dichelachne hirtella, not even recorded for South Australia... so cherish that one... RB"

More here,

http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apx?taxon_id=64957

and here, which map does seem to have a record of it on the Flerieu Peninsula, hmmmm.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/map/winmap?taxon_id=64957

http://tropicos.org/name/25557811

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dichelachne~hirtella


... still looking ... oh!

GOLD!

http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/imp02783.htm
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  1. SnailJune 19, 2010 at 9:03 PM

    There seem to be two SA records from the same location. Here's the data acording to the Australian Virtual Herbarium. (Sorry about the formatting!)

    Source institute NSW
    Accession number 549621
    Scientific name Dichelachne hirtella N.G.Walsh
    Collector Salasoo, H.
    Collecting number 1660
    Collecting date 27-Dec-1958
    Additional collectors
    Country Australia
    State South Australia
    Near named place
    Latitude -35.0
    Longitude 138.67
    Geocode source Compiler
    Geocode precision 10000.0
    Record update date 23-Nov-2006


    Source institute CBG
    Accession number 7800144
    Scientific name Dichelachne hirtella N.G.Walsh
    Collector Crisp, M.D.
    Collecting number 3842
    Collecting date 30-Dec-1977
    Additional collectors
    Country Australia
    State South Australia
    Near named place
    Latitude -35.0
    Longitude 138.67
    Geocode source collector
    Geocode precision 1000.0
    Record update date 4-May-2004

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  2. Remnant :)June 20, 2010 at 8:04 AM

    Aaah, Thanks for that confirmation Snail :)

    I have gone to the SA Herbarium site, which I think Bob would have consulted, and it seems not to have it recorded.

    http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/index.html

    "Census of South Australian Plants State Herbarium of South Australia

    List of current names and synonyms for the search term Dichelachne hirtella

    Final data modification on: Saturday 19 June 2010 2:15 AM
    Web page created on: Sunday 20 June 2010 7:55 AM

    ERROR: Your query found no matches. Please check the spelling, use wildcards, or be less specific."

    I have checked the spelling, but can't rely on proof-reading my own efforts!

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