Occurrence record: MEL 2329885A

Preserved specimen of Pereskia aculeata Mill. | Blade Apple recorded on 1868
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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 2329885A
Occurrence ID 6cc0d27c-6374-11e1-bc2b-000c2907ead9
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Sheet
Collector Woolls, W.  
Supplied as "Woolls, W."
Record number s.n.
Reproductive condition flowers | buds
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Rights holder Royal Botanic Gardens Board
Establishment means introduced
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Field notes Straggling habit, leaves rather fleshy, alternate, with two spined under the petiole, or one on each side axillary. The flowers are white, the petals spreading, stamens very numerous and unequal, style long and thick with four or five parted stigma. The flowers grow on the tops of little branches and below each flower there are many small leaves forming a kind of involucre. [See sheet for additional morphological notes.]
Occurrence remarks [Letter to Mueller from W. Woolls, dated 28 April, 1868, accompanies this collection.].
Identification ID 40c7cc07-1abd-11e3-90a2-6c626d51f2da

Event

Event ID 7d59cc4d-1abc-11e3-90a2-6c626d51f2da
Occurrence date Year: 1868, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1868 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Higher classification Eukarya | Plantae | Viridaeplantae | Tracheophyta | Magnoliopsida | Caryophyllanae | Caryophyllales | Cactaceae | Pereskia
Scientific name Pereskia aculeata
Identified to rank species
Common name Blade Apple
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Charophyta
Supplied as "Tracheophyta"
Class Equisetopsida
Supplied as "Magnoliopsida"
Order Caryophyllales
Family Cactaceae
Genus Pereskia
Species Pereskia aculeata
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Mill.
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICN

Geospatial

Locality Cultivated at Sydney. Near Parramatta. [New South Wales, Australia].
Verbatim locality Cultivated at Sydney. Near Parramatta. [New South Wales, Australia].
Field notes Straggling habit, leaves rather fleshy, alternate, with two spined under the petiole, or one on each side axillary. The flowers are white, the petals spreading, stamens very numerous and unequal, style long and thick with four or five parted stigma. The flowers grow on the tops of little branches and below each flower there are many small leaves forming a kind of involucre. [See sheet for additional morphological notes.]
Terrestrial false
Marine false
Verbatim SRS 1
Location ID bd64a6a3-1abc-11e3-90a2-6c626d51f2da

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