Occurrence record: MEL 2577178A

Preserved specimen of Myriophyllum aquaticum (Vell.) Verdc. | Brazilian Water Milfoil recorded on 2018-02-19

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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 2577178A
Occurrence ID	c5bba31d-08c1-49c1-b18a-2794c34bd87a
Record type	Preserved specimen Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations	Sheet
Identified by	Peter G. Wilson
Collector	Wilson, P.G. \| Heslewood, M.M.
Record number	1905
Associated Occurrence Status	Representative record
Associated occurrences	This record has 1 inferred associated occurrences 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
Institution ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/institution/70fbf720-63a3-4e3c-b844-ee96091880e0
Establishment means	introduced
Type	PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence	PRESENT Supplied as present
Field notes	Emergent herb to c. 25 cm.
recorded by ID	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6073393
Collection	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/7777d910-553a-45ac-b0e5-635261c1e992
Associated records	REPRESENTATIVE
Occurrence remarks	Localised, single patch only.
Date identified	2018-02-19
Identification ID	1a5973fd-2443-4490-895e-1fbab0d8bb38

Event

Event ID	0ab1054e-9939-4c4b-82fd-42b466299bcd
Occurrence date	2018-02-19 Supplied as year:2018 month:2 day:19
End day of year	50
Date precision	DAY
Start day of year	50

Taxonomy

Higher classification	Eukarya \| Plantae \| Viridaeplantae \| Streptophyta \| Embryophyta \| Tracheophyta \| Spermatophytina \| "Angiospermae" \| Magnoliopsida \| Saxifragales \| Haloragaceae \| Myriophyllum
Scientific name	Myriophyllum aquaticum
Identified to rank	species
Common name	Brazilian Water Milfoil
Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Charophyta
Class	Equisetopsida Supplied as "Magnoliopsida"
Order	Saxifragales
Family	Haloragaceae
Genus	Myriophyllum
Species	Myriophyllum aquaticum
Name match metric	exactMatch
Scientific name authorship	(Vell.) Verdc.
Name parse type	SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code	ICN

Geospatial

Country	Australia
State or Territory	New South Wales
Locality	Shoalhaven River, belowTallowa Dam, just downstream of canoe portage area.
Habitat	Supplied as "Standing water in side channel of river."
Latitude	-34.774722 Supplied as: "-34.7747222000"
Longitude	150.315556 Supplied as: "150.3155556000"
Datum	EPSG:4326 Supplied datum: "epsg:4326"
Verbatim coordinate system	degrees minutes seconds
Verbatim locality	Shoalhaven River, belowTallowa Dam, just downstream of canoe portage area.
Field notes	Emergent herb to c. 25 cm.
Coordinate precision	0.0002777778
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres)	50.0
Terrestrial	true
Verbatim latitude	34° 46' 29" S
Biome	TERRESTRIAL
Continent	Oceania
Marine	false
Country Code	AU
Verbatim longitude	150° 18' 56" E
Verbatim SRS	epsg:4326
Location ID	2b4e973a-f2fb-48e8-a168-b121761cf3e4

Additional properties

material entity id	c5bba31d-08c1-49c1-b18a-2794c34bd87a

User flagged issues

Data quality tests

Test name	Result
CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH	Warning
Coordinate rounded	Warning
Show/Hide 97 passed properties
Ambiguous collection	Passed
Ambiguous institution	Passed
Basis of record badly formed	Passed
Collection match fuzzy	Passed
Collection not matched	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
Coordinate precision invalid	Passed
Coordinates converted to WGS84	Passed
Decimal latitude/longitude conversion failed	Passed
Coordinate reprojection suspicious	Passed
Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid	Passed
Coordinates dont match supplied country	Passed
Country inferred from coordinates	Passed
Country invalid	Passed
Country mismatch	Passed
Different owner institution	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
Identified date invalid	Passed
Identified date unlikely	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 georeferenced by	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 georeference protocol	Missing
Missing georeference sources	Missing
Missing georeference verification status	Missing
Missing georeference date	Missing
Show/Hide 21 tests that have not been run
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)
Elevation unlikely	Unchecked (lack of data)
Min and max altitude reversed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Altitude value supplied in feet	Unchecked (lack of data)
Altitude value non-numeric	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)

Inferred associated occurrence details

This record has been identified as the representative occurrence in a group of associated occurrences. This mean other records have been detected that seem to relate to this record and this particular record has the most detailed information on the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ala-dataquality/wiki/INFERRED_DUPLICATE_RECORD

Representative Record
Record UUID	6a2768ae-c87c-4d19-971d-519bca1a6b43
Data Resource	National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) AVH data
Raw Scientific Name	Myriophyllum aquaticum
Coordinates	-34.774722,150.315556
Related records
Record UUID	9d960479-f03c-4484-92de-748690f2d6a3
Data Resource	NSW AVH feed
Raw Scientific Name	Myriophyllum aquaticum (Vell.) Verdc.
Coordinates	-34.7747,150.3155

Additional political boundaries information

Area Management
GER National Corridor	GER National Corridor
Great Eastern Ranges Initiative	GER Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions)	Sydney Basin
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon)	Ettrema
NRM Regions 2010	Southern Rivers
NRM Regions 2017	South East NSW
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023	South East NSW
Area management
National Landcare Program Management Units 2018	South East NSW
Biodiversity
IBRA 6 Regions	Sydney Basin
IBRA 7 Regions	Sydney Basin
IBRA 7 Subregions	Ettrema
Fire
National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset 2019-2020 - v20200324	National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent 2019-2020
Hydrology
Australian Drainage Divisions 2021	South East Coast (NSW)
Drainage Divisions Level 1	South East Coast (NSW)
Drainage Divisions Level 2	SHOALHAVEN RIVER
Indigenous
Indigenous Areas 2021	Shoalhaven
Indigenous Locations 2021	Shoalhaven
Indigenous Regions 2021	South-Eastern NSW
RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024	New South Wales
Marine
States including coastal waters	New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)
Political
ASGS Australian States and Territories	New South Wales
Australian States and Territories	New South Wales
Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021	Gilmore
Electorates March 2025	Gilmore
Local Government Areas 2011	Shoalhaven (C)
Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated	Shoalhaven - Pt B
Local Government Areas PSMA 2018	SHOALHAVEN CITY COUNCIL
NSW Local Land Services Regions	South East
PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016)	46
PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016)	5494
PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016)	REST OF NSW
PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016)	ETTREMA - SASSAFRAS - BUDAWANG
PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016)	SHOALHAVEN
PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016)	SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS AND SHOALHAVEN
PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018)	GILMORE
PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016)	SHOALHAVEN
PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016)	SHOALHAVEN
PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016)	SOUTH-EASTERN NSW
PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016)	Inner Regional Australia
PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018)	LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
PSMA States (2016)	NEW SOUTH WALES
State Electoral Divisions 2022	Kiama
World Country Boundaries	New Zealand
Social
Australia 2021	Australia
Destination Zones 2021	Ettrema - Sassafras - Budawang
Greater Capital City Statistical Areas 2021	Rest of NSW
Local Government Areas 2023	Shoalhaven
Postal Areas 2021	2540
Remoteness Areas 2021	Inner Regional Australia
States and Territories 2021	New South Wales
Statistical Areas Level 1	11401127501
Statistical Areas Level 2	Ettrema - Sassafras - Budawang
Statistical Areas Level 3	Shoalhaven
Statistical Areas Level 4	Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven
Tourism Regions 2021	South Coast
Vegetation
Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0	Non-Indigenous, Native forest
Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0	Eucalypt Medium Woodland
Forests of Australia 2018B	Eucalypt Medium Woodland
NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups	Eucalypt Woodlands
NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups	Eucalyptus woodlands with a shrubby understorey
Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0	Nature Conservation Reserve
Vegetation types - native	Casuarina forests and woodlands
Vegetation types - present	Eucalyptus open forest

Environmental sampling for this location

Biodiversity
Occurrence Density	150.0 frequency
Species Richness	90.0 frequency
Climate
Precipitation - annual (Bio12)	876.0 mm
Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19)	180.0 mm
Precipitation - driest period (Bio14)	10.0 mm
Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17)	164.0 mm
Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15)	22.0 mm
Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18)	252.0 mm
Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13)	24.0 mm
Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16)	284.0 mm
Radiation - annual mean (Bio20)	16.6 MJ/m2/day
Radiation - seasonality (Bio23)	36.0
Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26)	22.7 MJ/m2/day
Temperature - annual mean (Bio01)	16.5 degrees C
Temperature - annual range (Bio07)	23.5 degrees C
Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06)	4.5 degrees C
Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11)	11.3 degrees C
Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02)	11.9 degrees C
Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09)	11.8 degrees C
Temperature - isothermality (Bio03)	0.5 %
Temperature - seasonality (Bio04)	1.39
Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05)	28.0 degrees C
Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10)	21.6 degrees C
Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08)	20.9 degrees C
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual	1316.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter	394.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month	78.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter	263.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality	17.945889 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter	263.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month	145.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter	410.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean	13.816667 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range	21.0 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min	3.6 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean	9.216667 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean	10.35 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean	18.300001 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality	49.285713 %
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality	369.82388
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max	24.6 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean	18.300001 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean	9.766666 °C
WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality	48.0 %
Substrate
Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28)	0.58
Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32)	0.81
Elevation	104.0 m

Group	Field Name	Original Value	Processed Value


Classification	Scientific name	Myriophyllum aquaticum	Myriophyllum aquaticum
	Match type		exactMatch
	Phylum id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51795631
	Family id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51773624
	Taxon concept ID		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2899913
	Order	Saxifragales	Saxifragales
	Taxon rank id		7000
	Species id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2899913
	Genus	Myriophyllum	Myriophyllum
	Left		471726
	Higher classification	Eukarya \| Plantae \| Viridaeplantae \| Streptophyta \| Embryophyta \| Tracheophyta \| Spermatophytina \| "Angiospermae" \| Magnoliopsida \| Saxifragales \| Haloragaceae \| Myriophyllum
	Scientific name authorship	(Vell.) Verdc.	(Vell.) Verdc.
	Taxon rank	species	species
	Genus id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51773756
	Name type		SCIENTIFIC
	Vernacular name		Brazilian Water Milfoil
	Nomenclatural code	ICN
	Order id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51773625
	Right		471726
	Kingdom	Plantae	Plantae
	Specific epithet	aquaticum
	Class id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51795630
	Phylum		Charophyta
	Class	Magnoliopsida	Equisetopsida
	Species		Myriophyllum aquaticum
	Family	Haloragaceae	Haloragaceae
	Kingdom id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51795632
Event	Event ID	0ab1054e-9939-4c4b-82fd-42b466299bcd
	Year	2018	2018
	End day of year		50
	Month	2	2
	Date precision		DAY
	Start day of year	50	50
	Day	19	19
	Event date	2018-02-19	2018-02-19
Identification	Date identified	2018-02-19	2018-02-19
	Identified by	[Peter G. Wilson]
	Identification ID	1a5973fd-2443-4490-895e-1fbab0d8bb38
Occurrence	Associated occurrences		9d960479-f03c-4484-92de-748690f2d6a3
	Rights holder		Royal Botanic Gardens Board
	Institution ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/institution/70fbf720-63a3-4e3c-b844-ee96091880e0
	Duplication status		R
	Establishment means	introduced	introduced
	Type		PhysicalObject
	Catalog number	MEL 2577178A
	Occurrence status	present	PRESENT
	Basis of record	PreservedSpecimen	PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
	Field notes	Emergent herb to c. 25 cm.
	Modified	2025-11-27 19:00:01	2025-11-27T19:00:01
	Recorded by ID	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6073393	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6073393
	Record number	1905
	Collection code	MEL
	Occurrence ID	c5bba31d-08c1-49c1-b18a-2794c34bd87a
	Collection ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/7777d910-553a-45ac-b0e5-635261c1e992
	Preparations	Sheet
	Duplicate status		REPRESENTATIVE
	Institution code	MEL
	Recorded by	Wilson, P.G. \| Heslewood, M.M.
	Occurrence remarks	Localised, single patch only.
Attribution	Data resource		National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) AVH data
	Collection		National Herbarium of Victoria
	License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode	CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
	Data provider uid		dp36
	Provenance		Published dataset
	Data Resource ID	dr376	dr376
	Institution ID		in21
	Data partner		Australia's Virtual Herbarium
	Institution		Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
	Data hub uid	[dh2, dh9]
	Collection ID		co55
Location	Country	Australia	Australia
	Habitat	Standing water in side channel of river.
	Decimal latitude	-34.7747222000	-34.774722
	Terrestrial	true	true
	Locality	Shoalhaven River, belowTallowa Dam, just downstream of canoe portage area.	Shoalhaven River, belowTallowa Dam, just downstream of canoe portage area.
	Decimal longitude	150.3155556000	150.315556
	State province	New South Wales	New South Wales
	Verbatim locality	Shoalhaven River, belowTallowa Dam, just downstream of canoe portage area.
	Verbatim latitude	34° 46' 29" S
	Biome		TERRESTRIAL
	Continent	Oceania
	Coordinate uncertainty in meters	50.0	50.0
	Lga	Shoalhaven (C)
	Marine	false	false
	Country code	AU	AU
	Verbatim longitude	150° 18' 56" E
	Verbatim SRS	epsg:4326
	Verbatim coordinate system	degrees minutes seconds
	Geodetic datum	epsg:4326	EPSG:4326
	Coordinate precision	0.0002777778	2.777778E-4
	Location ID	2b4e973a-f2fb-48e8-a168-b121761cf3e4

AVH

The Australasian Virtual Herbarium