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Occurrence record: M045628

Preserved specimen of Daltoniaceae Schimp. | mosses | moss
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Data resource WELT Herbarium at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Institution code Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Supplied institution code "NMNZ"
Collection Herbarium of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Supplied collection code "WELT"
Catalog number M045628
Occurrence ID tepapa:collection/object/2471241
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Dr David Glenny  
Collector Reverend William Colenso
Record number a.711
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Supplied as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0)
Rights holder Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Institution ID https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/institution/2749cf1e-60d9-4b03-9c71-3763632b8f78
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Field notes [Coords. are approx. and derived.]
Identified by ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18984971
recorded by ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2624463
Owner institution code NMNZ
Collection https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/6b5044bb-5fff-49ef-89c1-f52ae9e81550
Dataset / Survey name [WELT Herbarium at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]
Dataset [tepapa:collection/dataset/plants]
Access rights https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/api-terms-of-use
Date identified 2025-07-17
Identification ID tepapa:collection/identification/2471241/18055

Event

Dataset / Survey name WELT Herbarium at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa  
Event ID tepapa:collection/fieldcollection/359085
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Higher classification Plantae | Embryophyta | Bryophytes | Hepaticopsida | Bryales | Daltoniaceae | Distichophyllum
Scientific name Daltoniaceae
Supplied scientific name "Distichophyllum"
Identified to rank family
Supplied as "Genus"
Common name mosses | moss
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Bryophyta
Class Bryopsida
Order Hookeriales
Family Daltoniaceae
Genus Distichophyllum
Name match metric higherMatch
Scientific name authorship Schimp.
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICBN

Geospatial

Country New Zealand
State or Territory North Island, Southern North Island
Locality "Bartramia Creek", near Norsewood, banks of River Mangataiwhainui [Mangatewainui]
Latitude -40.083
Supplied as: "-40.083"
Longitude 176.175
Supplied as: "176.175"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "EPSG:4959"
Field notes [Coords. are approx. and derived.]
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code NZ

Additional properties

verbatim identification Distichophyllum

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