Occurrence record: MEL 0291470A
Preserved specimen
of
Cucumis melo
L.
| Bush Cucumber
recorded on 1998-03-31
Dataset
Data partner | Australia's Virtual Herbarium |
Data resource | National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) AVH data |
Institution code |
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Supplied institution code "MEL" |
Collection |
National Herbarium of Victoria
Supplied collection code "MEL" |
Catalog number | MEL 0291470A |
Occurrence ID | 3a10c580-6374-11e1-bc2b-000c2907ead9 |
Record type |
Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen" |
Preparations | Sheet |
Collector |
Waterhouse, B.M.
Supplied as "Waterhouse, B.M." |
Record number | 4861 |
Reproductive condition | flowers | fruit |
Associated Occurrence Status | Asserted duplicates |
Associated occurrences |
The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details |
License | CC-BY 4.0 (Int) Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
Rights holder | Royal Botanic Gardens Board |
Type | PhysicalObject |
Presence/Absence | PRESENT Supplied as present |
Field notes | Scrambling vine with scabrous stems and foliage. Flowers yellow. Fruit ovoid to 3 cm long. Green, becoming yellow as ripens, fleshy. |
Associated records | ASSOCIATED |
Occurrence remarks | Potential fruit fly host. Specimen discoloured by ethanol treatment (for quarantine purposes). Collected as part of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy. Ex BRI. NAQS Botanical Collection - Mareeba, Queensland. |
Identification ID | 1eedf08e-1abd-11e3-90a2-6c626d51f2da |
Event
Event ID | 5dee5ee1-1abc-11e3-90a2-6c626d51f2da |
Occurrence date |
1998-03-31
Supplied as year:1998 month:3 day:31 |
Date precision | DAY |
Start day of year | 90 |
Taxonomy
Higher classification | Eukarya | Plantae | Viridaeplantae | Tracheophyta | Magnoliopsida | Rosanae | Cucurbitales | Cucurbitaceae | Cucumis |
Scientific name | Cucumis melo |
Identified to rank | species |
Common name | Bush Cucumber |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum |
Charophyta
Supplied as "Tracheophyta" |
Class |
Equisetopsida
Supplied as "Magnoliopsida" |
Order | Cucurbitales |
Family | Cucurbitaceae |
Genus | Cucumis |
Species | Cucumis melo |
Name match metric | exactMatch |
Scientific name authorship | L. |
Name parse type | SCIENTIFIC |
Nomenclatural code | ICN |
Geospatial
Higher geography | Oceania | Australia |
Country | Australia |
State or Territory | Queensland |
Locality | Boigu Island, Torres Strait. |
Habitat |
Supplied as "A mud cay. Collected from western end of airstrip near rubbish dump." |
Latitude |
-9.2314 Supplied as: "-9.2314000000" |
Longitude |
142.2211 Supplied as: "142.2211000000" |
Datum |
EPSG:4326 Supplied datum: "epsg:4326" |
Verbatim coordinate system | degrees minutes decimal seconds |
Verbatim locality | Boigu Island, Torres Strait. |
Min elevation | 10.0 |
Max elevation | 10.0 |
Field notes | Scrambling vine with scabrous stems and foliage. Flowers yellow. Fruit ovoid to 3 cm long. Green, becoming yellow as ripens, fleshy. |
Coordinate precision | 0.0002777778 |
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) | 1000.0 |
Georeference protocol | GPS |
Georeferenced by | Waterhouse, B.M. |
Terrestrial | true |
Georeferenced date | 1998-03-31T00:00 Supplied as 1998-03-31 00:00:00 |
Verbatim latitude | 9° 13' 53" S |
Biome | TERRESTRIAL |
Continent | Oceania |
Marine | false |
Country Code | AU |
Verbatim longitude | 142° 13' 16" E |
Verbatim SRS | 1 |
Location ID | ae9959e6-1abc-11e3-90a2-6c626d51f2da |
Data quality tests
Test name | Result |
CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH | Warning |
Coordinates dont match supplied country | Warning |
Taxon misapplied matched | Warning |
Show/Hide 102 passed properties | |
Show/Hide 2 missing properties | |
Show/Hide 17 tests that have not been run |
Inferred associated occurrence details
This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:
Representative Record | |||
Record UUID | 988f01f0-b1d5-4509-a0b1-026090c61bac | ||
Data Resource | BRI AVH Data and Images | ||
Raw Scientific Name | Cucumis melo | ||
Coordinates | -9.231389,142.220833 | ||
Related records | |||
Record UUID | 2a49ff87-fc32-4bdd-9067-07189607ba0c | ||
Data Resource | National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) AVH data | ||
Raw Scientific Name | Cucumis melo | ||
Coordinates | -9.2314,142.2211 | ||
Record UUID | 398962c8-0ae5-4176-9bc0-1bc875c57150 | ||
Data Resource | Northern Territory Herbarium (DNA) AVH data | ||
Raw Scientific Name | Cucumis melo L. | ||
Coordinates | -9.2315,142.221 |
Additional political boundaries information
Environmental sampling for this location
Climate | |
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean | 26.783333 °C |
WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality | 72.0 % |