Occurrence record: MEL 2494955A

Preserved specimen of Alpinia caerulea (R.Br.) Benth. | Native Ginger recorded on 2017-12-08
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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 2494955A
Occurrence ID ac7f1c13-c913-4b7e-bf9f-6e181302bee9
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Sheet|Silica gel sample
Identified by Walsh, N.G.  
Collector 1.  Gunn, B.F.   2.  Walsh, N.G.   3.  Birch, J.L.  
Supplied as "Gunn, B.F. | Walsh, N.G. | Birch, J.L."
Record number 1265
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 Shrub about 1.5 m tall. Flowers white, terminal.
Date identified 2017-12-08
Identification ID 15773569-f527-42ee-8fd1-9d98bd61e3f8

Event

Event ID a71d8afd-458b-4cd6-9676-1d950f7f5ef0
Occurrence date 2017-12-08
Supplied as year:2017  month:12  day:8 
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 342

Taxonomy

Higher classification Eukarya | Plantae | Viridaeplantae | Tracheophyta | Magnoliopsida | Lilianae | Zingiberales | Zingiberaceae | Alpinia
Scientific name Alpinia caerulea
Identified to rank species
Common name Native Ginger
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Charophyta
Supplied as "Tracheophyta"
Class Equisetopsida
Supplied as "Magnoliopsida"
Order Zingiberales
Family Zingiberaceae
Genus Alpinia
Species Alpinia caerulea
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (R.Br.) Benth.
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICN

Geospatial

Higher geography Oceania | Australia
Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Road to Mt. Lewis, NW of Cairns.
Latitude -16.511389
Supplied as: "-16.5113889000"
Longitude 145.269444
Supplied as: "145.2694444000"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "1"
Verbatim coordinate system degrees minutes decimal seconds
Verbatim locality Road to Mt. Lewis, NW of Cairns.
Min elevation 1189.0
Max elevation 1189.0
Field notes Shrub about 1.5 m tall. Flowers white, terminal.
Coordinate precision 0.0002777778
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 50.0
Georeference protocol GPS
Georeferenced by Klazenga, N.
Terrestrial true
Elevation 13
Verbatim latitude 16° 30' 41" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 16' 10" E
Verbatim SRS 1
Location ID 5883a9e0-6ea9-48aa-a278-3fb89e107edb

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Mount Lewis
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Mount Lewis
    GER National Corridor GER National Corridor
    Great Eastern Ranges Initiative GER Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Gulf
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Gulf
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Gulf
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Wet Tropics
    IBRA 7 Regions Wet Tropics
    IBRA 7 Subregions Daintree-Bloomfield
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Carpentaria Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 MITCHELL-COLEMAN RIVERS (QLD)
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Local Government Areas 2011 Tablelands (R)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Mareeba
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 MAREEBA SHIRE
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 57
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 1654
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF QLD
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) TABLELANDS
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) FAR NORTH
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) QUEENSLAND - OUTBACK
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) KENNEDY
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) KURANDA - CROYDON
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) ETHERIDGE TABLELANDS
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) CAIRNS - ATHERTON
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Very Remote Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK
    PSMA States (2016) QUEENSLAND
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Indigenous co-managed, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Rainforest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Rainforest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Rainforests and Vine Thickets
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Warm Temperate Rainforest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Rainforests and vine thickets
    Vegetation types - present Rainforest and vine thickets

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 2192.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 205.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 7.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 145.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 81.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 930.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 121.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1219.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.2 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 19.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 11.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 16.0 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.5 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 17.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.53 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.88
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 27.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 22.5 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 21.9 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 18.620832 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 59.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.86
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 1231.0 m