Occurrence record: CNS 134271.1

Preserved specimen of Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton | Giant Parramatta Grass recorded on 2009-06-13
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Dataset

Data partner Australia's Virtual Herbarium
Data resource Australian Tropical Herbarium (CNS) AVH data
Institution code Australian Tropical Herbarium
Supplied institution code "CNS"
Collection Australian Tropical Herbarium
Supplied collection code "CNS"
Catalog number CNS 134271.1
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations sheet
Identified by BRI personnel  
Collector Mckenna, S.G.  
Supplied as "McKenna, S.G."
Record number 556
Reproductive condition flowers|leaf
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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Disposition in collection
Occurrence remarks Tufted erect grass to 1 m. Inflorescence a dense, contracted panicle. Sooty fungus absent from inflorescence. Roots very fibrous. Collected as part of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy. This specimen has been treated with ethanol for quarantine purposes. Herb

Event

Occurrence date 2009-06-13
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Sporobolus fertilis
Supplied scientific name "Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton"
Identified to rank species
Common name Giant Parramatta Grass
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Charophyta
Class Equisetopsida
Order Poales
Family Poaceae
Genus Sporobolus
Species Sporobolus fertilis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Steud.) Clayton
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Horn (Ngurupai) Island, Torres Strait. Dirt track off Esplanade, south-west of Wasaga township.
Habitat
Supplied as "Growing between tyre tracks on vehicle track in weedy sward with Sida, Eleusine, Cyperus, Cyanthillium and Stylosanthes. Open woodland adjacent to Melaleuca-Pandanus swampy woodland. Coarse sandy sediments, plain.[-10.59695, 142.24364] Collected as part of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy. This specimen has been treated with ethanol for quarantine purposes."
Latitude -10.596944
Supplied as: "-10.596944444"
Longitude 142.243611
Supplied as: "142.243611111"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeferenced by collector
County Cook
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 10 35 49 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 142 14 37 E

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    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 41942887-8654-44f7-83d2-c5496cf3e1cc
    Data Resource Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANB) AVH data
    Raw Scientific Name Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton
    Coordinates -10.596944,142.243611
    Related records
    Record UUID df698107-dc57-4043-aed4-ab2ebf3dcbd5
    Data Resource BRI AVH Data and Images
    Raw Scientific Name Sporobolus fertilis
    Coordinates -10.59695,142.243639
    Record UUID d963631d-3596-495f-b024-7b4f38b5fd5f
    Data Resource Australian Tropical Herbarium (CNS) AVH data
    Raw Scientific Name Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton
    Coordinates -10.596944,142.243611

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Torres Strait & far Northern GBR
    NRM Regions 2010 Torres Strait
    NRM Regions 2017 Torres Strait
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Torres Strait
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Cape York Peninsula
    IBRA 7 Regions Cape York Peninsula
    IBRA 7 Subregions Cape York-Torres Strait
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Carpentaria Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Kaurareg People / Torres Shire Council / State of Queensland - ILUA
    Local Government Areas 2011 Torres (S)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Torres
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 TORRES SHIRE
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 1767
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 2726
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF QLD
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) TORRES
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) FAR NORTH
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) QUEENSLAND - OUTBACK
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) LEICHHARDT
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) KAIWALAGAL - INNER ISLANDS
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) HORN ISLAND
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) TORRES STRAIT
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Very Remote Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK
    PSMA States (2016) QUEENSLAND
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Sensitive Data Layers
    Special Quarantine Zone - Torres Strait Special Quarantine Zone - Torres Strait
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Mangrove
    Forests of Australia 2018B Acacia
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Mangroves
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1648.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 28.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 18.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 112.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 465.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 109.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1085.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.7 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 9.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 22.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.7 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 5.9 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 26.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.61 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.34
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 32.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 28.3 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 27.7 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 26.983334 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 65.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.54
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0