Occurrence record: MEL 2578630A

Preserved specimen of Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka | Red Natal Grass recorded on 2009-05-27

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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 2578630A
Occurrence ID	8470b76a-9eb0-469a-9e1d-0a95e28ebee9
Record type	Preserved specimen Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations	Sheet
Collector	Brown, K.L. \| Paczkowska, G.
Record number	777
Reproductive condition	flowers
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
Institution ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/institution/70fbf720-63a3-4e3c-b844-ee96091880e0
Type	PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence	PRESENT Supplied as present
Field notes	Caespitose perennial grass to 75 cm high x 50 cm wide. Flowers pink-red.
Collection	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/7777d910-553a-45ac-b0e5-635261c1e992
Associated records	ASSOCIATED
Occurrence remarks	Common in disturbed areas on soil mounds from drain excavation.
Identification ID	7dfc102f-f99e-4f9c-8ee4-468ca05ec4de

Event

Event ID	07a9fb50-e570-4060-b6de-39298bde1e9a
Occurrence date	2009-05-27 Supplied as year:2009 month:5 day:27
End day of year	147
Date precision	DAY
Start day of year	147

Taxonomy

Higher classification	Eukarya \| Plantae \| Viridaeplantae \| Streptophyta \| Embryophyta \| Tracheophyta \| Spermatophytina \| "Angiospermae" \| Magnoliopsida \| Poales \| Poaceae \| Melinis
Scientific name	Melinis repens
Identified to rank	species
Common name	Red Natal Grass
Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Charophyta
Class	Equisetopsida Supplied as "Magnoliopsida"
Order	Poales
Family	Poaceae
Genus	Melinis
Species	Melinis repens
Name match metric	exactMatch
Scientific name authorship	(Willd.) Zizka
Name parse type	SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code	ICN

Geospatial

Country	Australia
State or Territory	Western Australia
Locality	Brixton Street Wetlands, Kenwick.
Habitat	Supplied as "Disturbed edge of wet flat. White-brown clay with ironstone gravel, poorly drained. Burnt March 2009."
Latitude	-32.033694 Supplied as: "-32.0336944444"
Longitude	115.969806 Supplied as: "115.9698055556"
Datum	EPSG:4326 Supplied datum: "epsg:4283"
Verbatim coordinate system	degrees minutes seconds
Verbatim locality	Brixton Street Wetlands, Kenwick.
Field notes	Caespitose perennial grass to 75 cm high x 50 cm wide. Flowers pink-red.
Coordinate precision	0.0002777778
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres)	1000.0
Terrestrial	true
Verbatim latitude	32° 2' 1.3" S
Biome	TERRESTRIAL
Continent	Oceania
Marine	false
Country Code	AU
Verbatim longitude	115° 58' 11.3" E
Verbatim SRS	epsg:4283
Location ID	4152ecc5-6580-48bc-b6d0-43bee7b6d78c

Additional properties

material entity id	8470b76a-9eb0-469a-9e1d-0a95e28ebee9

User flagged issues

Data quality tests

Test name	Result
CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH	Warning
Coordinate rounded	Warning
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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
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 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 5 missing properties
Missing georeferenced by	Missing
Missing georeference protocol	Missing
Missing georeference sources	Missing
Missing georeference verification status	Missing
Missing georeference date	Missing
Show/Hide 23 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)
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)

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:

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

Representative Record
Record UUID	129e7927-e50f-4a98-88c8-dca1ff567d48
Data Resource	Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH) AVH data
Raw Scientific Name	Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka
Coordinates	-32.033703,115.969807
Related records
Record UUID	b3a2a09f-cc59-422a-b388-bc57e1d82199
Data Resource	National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) AVH data
Raw Scientific Name	Melinis repens
Coordinates	-32.033694,115.969806

Additional political boundaries information

Area Management
CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial	Kenwick Wetlands
CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial	Kenwick Wetlands
CAPAD 2022 - Terrestrial (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database)	Kenwick Wetlands
Directory of Important Wetlands	Brixton Street Swamps
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions)	Swan Coastal Plain
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon)	Perth
NRM Regions 2010	Perth
NRM Regions 2017	Swan Region
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023	Swan Region
Area management
National Landcare Program Management Units 2018	Swan Region
Biodiversity
IBRA 6 Regions	Swan Coastal Plain
IBRA 7 Regions	Swan Coastal Plain
IBRA 7 Subregions	Perth
Hydrology
Australian Drainage Divisions 2021	South West Coast
Drainage Divisions Level 1	South West Coast
Drainage Divisions Level 2	SWAN COAST-AVON RIVER
Indigenous
Indigenous Areas 2021	Gosnells
Indigenous Land Use Agreements	Whadjuk People Indigenous Land Use Agreement
Indigenous Locations 2021	Kenwick
Indigenous Regions 2021	Perth
RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024	South West
Land Management
Western Australian Biodiversity Science Research Priority Regions	South-West
Marine
States including coastal waters	Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
Political
ASGS Australian States and Territories	Western Australia
Australian States and Territories	Western Australia
Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021	Burt
Electorates March 2025	Burt
Local Government Areas 2011	Gosnells (C)
Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated	Gosnells
Local Government Areas PSMA 2018	CITY OF GOSNELLS
PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016)	77
PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016)	2753
PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016)	GREATER PERTH
PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016)	BECKENHAM - KENWICK - LANGFORD
PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016)	GOSNELLS
PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016)	PERTH - SOUTH EAST
PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018)	HASLUCK
PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016)	GOSNELLS
PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016)	KENWICK
PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016)	PERTH
PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016)	Major Cities of Australia
PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018)	FORRESTFIELD, EM
PSMA States (2016)	WESTERN AUSTRALIA
State Electoral Divisions 2022	Forrestfield (East Metropolitan)
World Country Boundaries	Australia
Social
Australia 2021	Australia
Destination Zones 2021	Beckenham - Kenwick - Langford
Greater Capital City Statistical Areas 2021	Greater Perth
Local Government Areas 2023	Gosnells
Postal Areas 2021	6107
Remoteness Areas 2021	Major Cities of Australia
States and Territories 2021	Western Australia
Statistical Areas Level 2	Beckenham - Kenwick - Langford
Statistical Areas Level 3	Gosnells
Statistical Areas Level 4	Perth - South East
Tourism Regions 2021	Destination Perth
Vegetation
Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0	Non-Indigenous, Non forest
Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0	Non Forest
Forests of Australia 2018B	Non forest
NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups	Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups	Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0	Private Freehold
Vegetation types - native	Eucalypt woodlands
Vegetation types - present	cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

Environmental sampling for this location

Biodiversity
Occurrence Density	69083.0 frequency
Species Richness	2508.0 frequency
Climate
Precipitation - annual (Bio12)	778.0 mm
Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19)	413.0 mm
Precipitation - driest period (Bio14)	1.0 mm
Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17)	41.0 mm
Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15)	83.0 mm
Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18)	44.0 mm
Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13)	38.0 mm
Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16)	434.0 mm
Radiation - annual mean (Bio20)	18.4 MJ/m2/day
Radiation - seasonality (Bio23)	38.0
Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26)	25.7 MJ/m2/day
Temperature - annual mean (Bio01)	18.6 degrees C
Temperature - annual range (Bio07)	24.2 degrees C
Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06)	8.1 degrees C
Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11)	13.6 degrees C
Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02)	12.0 degrees C
Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09)	24.0 degrees C
Temperature - isothermality (Bio03)	0.5 %
Temperature - seasonality (Bio04)	1.46
Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05)	32.3 degrees C
Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10)	24.3 degrees C
Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08)	13.8 degrees C
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual	796.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter	441.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month	8.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter	38.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality	84.85653 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter	47.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month	162.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter	441.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean	18.770834 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range	23.2 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min	8.8 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean	13.8 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean	11.625 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean	24.083334 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality	50.107758 %
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality	434.2782
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max	32.0 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean	24.333334 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean	13.8 °C
WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality	48.0 %
Substrate
Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28)	0.52
Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32)	1.0
Elevation	14.0 m

Group	Field Name	Original Value	Processed Value


Classification	Scientific name	Melinis repens	Melinis repens
	Match type		exactMatch
	Phylum id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51795631
	Family id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51644646
	Taxon concept ID		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2891550
	Order	Poales	Poales
	Taxon rank id		7000
	Species id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2891550
	Genus	Melinis	Melinis
	Left		542828
	Higher classification	Eukarya \| Plantae \| Viridaeplantae \| Streptophyta \| Embryophyta \| Tracheophyta \| Spermatophytina \| "Angiospermae" \| Magnoliopsida \| Poales \| Poaceae \| Melinis
	Scientific name authorship	(Willd.) Zizka	(Willd.) Zizka
	Taxon rank	species	species
	Genus id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2899523
	Name type		SCIENTIFIC
	Vernacular name		Red Natal Grass
	Nomenclatural code	ICN
	Order id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51773658
	Right		542828
	Kingdom	Plantae	Plantae
	Specific epithet	repens
	Class id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51795630
	Phylum		Charophyta
	Class	Magnoliopsida	Equisetopsida
	Species		Melinis repens
	Family	Poaceae	Poaceae
	Kingdom id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51795632
Event	Event ID	07a9fb50-e570-4060-b6de-39298bde1e9a
	Year	2009	2009
	End day of year		147
	Month	5	5
	Date precision		DAY
	Start day of year	147	147
	Day	27	27
	Event date	2009-05-27	2009-05-27
Identification	Identification ID	7dfc102f-f99e-4f9c-8ee4-468ca05ec4de
Occurrence	Associated occurrences		129e7927-e50f-4a98-88c8-dca1ff567d48
	Rights holder		Royal Botanic Gardens Board
	Institution ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/institution/70fbf720-63a3-4e3c-b844-ee96091880e0
	Duplication status		D
	Type		PhysicalObject
	Catalog number	MEL 2578630A
	Occurrence status	present	PRESENT
	Basis of record	PreservedSpecimen	PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
	Field notes	Caespitose perennial grass to 75 cm high x 50 cm wide. Flowers pink-red.
	Modified	2025-12-18 19:00:01	2025-12-18T19:00:01
	Reproductive condition	flowers
	Record number	777
	Collection code	MEL
	Occurrence ID	8470b76a-9eb0-469a-9e1d-0a95e28ebee9
	Collection ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/7777d910-553a-45ac-b0e5-635261c1e992
	Preparations	Sheet
	Duplicate status		ASSOCIATED
	Institution code	MEL
	Recorded by	Brown, K.L. \| Paczkowska, G.
	Occurrence remarks	Common in disturbed areas on soil mounds from drain excavation.
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	Disturbed edge of wet flat. White-brown clay with ironstone gravel, poorly drained. Burnt March 2009.
	Decimal latitude	-32.0336944444	-32.033694
	Terrestrial	true	true
	Locality	Brixton Street Wetlands, Kenwick.	Brixton Street Wetlands, Kenwick.
	Decimal longitude	115.9698055556	115.969806
	State province	Western Australia	Western Australia
	Verbatim locality	Brixton Street Wetlands, Kenwick.
	Verbatim latitude	32° 2' 1.3" S
	Biome		TERRESTRIAL
	Continent	Oceania
	Coordinate uncertainty in meters	1000.0	1000.0
	Lga	Gosnells (C)
	Marine	false	false
	Country code	AU	AU
	Verbatim longitude	115° 58' 11.3" E
	Verbatim SRS	epsg:4283
	Verbatim coordinate system	degrees minutes seconds
	Geodetic datum	epsg:4283	EPSG:4326
	Coordinate precision	0.0002777778	2.777778E-4
	Location ID	4152ecc5-6580-48bc-b6d0-43bee7b6d78c

AVH

The Australasian Virtual Herbarium