Occurrence record: MEL 2412751A

Preserved specimen of Cyperus L. recorded on 1696-06-15
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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 2412751A
Occurrence ID e48b3c5a-5d5e-4223-aad5-9a4cb886c4f2
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector Browne, S.  
Supplied as "Browne, S."
Record number s.n.
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Rights holder Royal Botanic Gardens Board
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Field notes Cyperus Filicinus medius, panicula comosa.
Occurrence remarks 593. an ? Mulen pullu. H. Mal. [=Horti Malabarici] V. 12. Tab. 54. p. 101. M. Pet. 593. [=Musei Petiveriani No. 593 in Musei Petiveriani Centuriae p. 55 (1696), see also Philos. Trans. 23: 1256 (1702)]. Pet. [=Herbarium Petiver]. ["These plants were gathered between the 15th and 20th June, A.D. 1696. in the ways between Fort St George and Trippetee, which is about 70 miles off". Philos. Trans. 23: 1251 (1702)].
Identification ID 2756af6c-f310-42a7-a94c-9e225edba0bb

Event

Event ID 3312b1cd-e78d-4c2e-8950-7442afc62e98
Occurrence date 1696-06-15
Supplied date "1696-06-15/1696-06-20"
Date precision DAY_RANGE
Event date end 1696-06-20

Taxonomy

Higher classification Eukarya | Plantae | Viridaeplantae | Tracheophyta | Magnoliopsida | Lilianae | Poales | Cyperaceae
Scientific name Cyperus
Identified to rank genus
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Charophyta
Supplied as "Tracheophyta"
Class Equisetopsida
Supplied as "Magnoliopsida"
Order Poales
Family Cyperaceae
Genus Cyperus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship L.
Supplied as W.F.Hillebr.
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICN

Geospatial

Higher geography Asia | India
Country India
State or Territory Tamil Nadu
Locality Madraspat. [=Chennai]. [In the ways between Fort St George and Trippetee, which is about 70 miles off].
Latitude 13.083333
Supplied as: "13.0833333333"
Longitude 80.283333
Supplied as: "80.2833333333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "1"
Verbatim coordinate system degrees decimal minutes
Verbatim locality Madraspat. [=Chennai]. [In the ways between Fort St George and Trippetee, which is about 70 miles off].
Field notes Cyperus Filicinus medius, panicula comosa.
Coordinate precision 0.0166666667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 25000.0
Georeference protocol GeoNames
Georeferenced by National Herbarium of Victoria
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 13° 05' N
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Asia
Marine false
Country Code IN
Verbatim longitude 80° 17' E
Verbatim SRS 1
Location ID 0a25a6d9-b1f0-48b5-9ff7-1795ed03d74d

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    Political
    World Country Boundaries India

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 29.075 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 50.0 %