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Occurrence record: BRI AQ0359460

Preserved specimen of Dendrobium discolor Lindl. | Golden Orchid recorded on 1956-02-12

API

Dataset

Data partner	Australia's Virtual Herbarium
Data resource	BRI AVH Data and Images
Institution code	Queensland Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation Supplied institution code "BRI"
Collection	Queensland Herbarium Supplied collection code "Herbrecs"
Catalog number	BRI AQ0359460
Occurrence ID	urn:catalog:BRI:Herbrecs:0359460
Record type	Preserved specimen Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations	Sheet
Collector	Womersley, J.S.
Record number	NGF8500
Reproductive condition	Flowers
License	CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type	PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence	PRESENT Supplied as present
Occurrence remarks	Inflorence to 2 foot long, flowers many, flowing on new and leafless pseudobulbs, long lasting. Sepals and petals much curled, edges crisped. Sepals curved backwards, sepals and petals yellow brown, finely marked with purple except at the edges. Lip with 5 white keels more or less marked with violet, 3 middle ones raised into a medium corena. Midlobe with crisped edges, pointed tip curving downwards, light yellow veined with purple.

Event

Occurrence date	1956-02-12
End day of year	43
Event remarks	Specimen from growing plant No. 60, Botanic Gardens, Lae. Spirit collection No. 4 at LAE. Epiphyte on trees in coastal belt. Pseudobulbs long, to 10 inches, thickest just above the base, narrowing upwards, leaves alternate fleshy, light green.
Date precision	DAY
Start day of year	43

Taxonomy

Higher classification	Plantae \| Viridaeplantae \| Streptophyta \| Equisetopsida \| Magnoliidae \| Lilianae \| Asparagales \| Orchidaceae \| Dendrobium
Scientific name	Dendrobium discolor
Identified to rank	species
Common name	Golden Orchid
Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Charophyta Supplied as "Streptophyta"
Class	Equisetopsida
Order	Asparagales
Family	Orchidaceae
Genus	Dendrobium
Species	Dendrobium discolor
Name match metric	exactMatch
Scientific name authorship	Lindl.
Name parse type	SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code	ICN

Geospatial

Country	Papua New Guinea
State or Territory	Morobe
Locality	Due to sensitivity concerns, the coordinates of this record have been generalised.
Latitude	-6.76 Supplied as: "-6.7600000000"
Longitude	147.01 Supplied as: "147.0100000000"
Datum	EPSG:4326 Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Min elevation	30.0000000000
Coordinate precision	Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres)	2000.0
Georeference protocol	Hrb Convert
Terrestrial	true
Biome	TERRESTRIAL
Marine	false
Country Code	PG Supplied as ZZ

Additional properties

verbatim identification	Det.

User flagged issues

Data quality tests

Test name	Result
Country invalid	Warning
Show/Hide 99 passed properties
Ambiguous collection	Passed
Ambiguous institution	Passed
Basis of record badly formed	Passed
Collection match fuzzy	Passed
Collection not matched	Passed
CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH	Passed
Continent country mismatch	Passed
Continent derived from coordinates	Passed
CONTINENT_DERIVED_FROM_COUNTRY	Passed
Continent invalid	Passed
Coordinates centre of country	Passed
Supplied coordinates centre of state	Passed
Coordinate invalid	Passed
Coordinates are out of range for species	Passed
Coordinates converted to WGS84	Passed
Decimal latitude/longitude conversion failed	Passed
Coordinate reprojection suspicious	Passed
Coordinate rounded	Passed
Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid	Passed
Coordinates dont match supplied country	Passed
Country inferred from coordinates	Passed
Country mismatch	Passed
Different owner institution	Passed
Min and max altitude reversed	Passed
Altitude value non-numeric	Passed
Altitude value supplied in feet	Passed
Elevation unlikely	Passed
First of the century	Passed
First of the month	Passed
First of the year	Passed
Geodetic datum assumed WGS84	Passed
Unrecognized geodetic datum	Passed
Georeferenced after occurrence date	Passed
Identification date before occurrence date	Passed
Institution and Collection mismatch	Passed
Institution match fuzzy	Passed
Institution not matched	Passed
Interpretation error	Passed
Invalid scientific name	Passed
Location not supplied	Passed
Missing collection date	Passed
Missing geodetic datum	Passed
Missing georeference protocol	Passed
Missing taxon rank	Passed
Modified date invalid	Passed
Modified date unlikely	Passed
Multimedia date invalid	Passed
Multimedia uri invalid	Passed
Name not supplied	Passed
Occurrence status inferred from basis of record	Passed
Occurrence status inferred from individual count	Passed
Occurrence status unparsable	Passed
Latitude is negated	Passed
Longitude is negated	Passed
Presumed swapped coordinate	Passed
Recorded date invalid	Passed
Recorded date mismatch	Passed
Recorded date unlikely	Passed
SCIENTIFIC_NAME_AND_ID_INCONSISTENT	Passed
Sensitivity report invalid	Passed
Sensitivity report not loadable	Passed
Coordinates dont match supplied state	Passed
Taxon affinity species	Passed
TAXON_CONCEPT_ID_NOT_FOUND	Passed
Taxon confer species	Passed
Taxon default match	Passed
Taxon error	Passed
Taxon excluded	Passed
Taxon excluded associated	Passed
Taxon homonym	Passed
Taxon indeterminate species	Passed
Taxon match aggregate	Passed
Taxon match fuzzy	Passed
Taxon match higher rank	Passed
TAXON_MATCH_NAME_AND_ID_AMBIGUOUS	Passed
Taxon match none	Passed
TAXON_MATCH_TAXON_CONCEPT_ID_IGNORED	Passed
Taxon misapplied	Passed
Taxon misapplied matched	Passed
Taxon parent child synonym	Passed
Taxon question species	Passed
Resource taxonomic scope mismatch	Passed
Taxon species plural	Passed
Coordinate precision and uncertainty transposed	Passed
Uncertainty not specified	Passed
Supplied country not recognised	Passed
Kingdom not recognised	Passed
Unrecognized collection code	Passed
Unrecognized institution code	Passed
Supplied coordinates are zero	Passed
Biosecurity issue	Passed
Suspected outlier	Passed
Geospatial issue	Passed
Habitat incorrect for species	Passed
Taxon misidentified	Passed
Taxonomic issue	Passed
Temporal issue	Passed
Other issue	Passed
Duplicate record	Passed
Show/Hide 4 missing properties
Missing georeferenced by	Missing
Missing georeference sources	Missing
Missing georeference verification status	Missing
Missing georeference date	Missing
Show/Hide 20 tests that have not been run
Coordinate precision invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Footprint SRS invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Footprint WKT mismatch	Unchecked (lack of data)
Footprint WKT invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
TAXON_MATCH_SCIENTIFIC_NAME_ID_IGNORED	Unchecked (lack of data)
TAXON_MATCH_TAXON_ID_IGNORED	Unchecked (lack of data)
SCIENTIFIC_NAME_ID_NOT_FOUND	Unchecked (lack of data)
TAXON_ID_NOT_FOUND	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth value supplied in feet	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth unlikely	Unchecked (lack of data)
Min and max depth reversed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth value non-numeric	Unchecked (lack of data)
Identified date unlikely	Unchecked (lack of data)
Identified date invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Type status invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
References uri invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Individual count invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Individual count conflicts with occurrence status	Unchecked (lack of data)
Georeferenced date unlikely	Unchecked (lack of data)
Georeferenced date invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)

Environmental sampling for this location

Biodiversity
Occurrence Density	2395.0 frequency
Species Richness	859.0 frequency

AVH

The Australasian Virtual Herbarium