Occurrence record: MEL 2577428A

Preserved specimen of Polysiphonia Grev. recorded on 1874/1875

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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 2577428A
Occurrence ID	9c67693c-8bc0-4377-b1fd-600a2d68d2ec
Record type	Preserved specimen Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations	Sheet
Collector	Berggren, 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
Institution ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/institution/70fbf720-63a3-4e3c-b844-ee96091880e0
Type	PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence	PRESENT Supplied as present
recorded by ID	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2600462
Collection	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/7777d910-553a-45ac-b0e5-635261c1e992
Occurrence remarks	[Dr. Sven Berggren (1837 - 1917) visited New Zealand from Jan. 1 1874 to April 1875. He travelled to Wellington, Christchurch, West Coast, Auckland, Invercargill, Otago, Bay of Islands, Bay of Plenty - among other localities. See: 'Sven Berggren in New Zealand' (1970), Turnbull Lib. Rec. vol. 3, iss. 1. – M. Simpson, 29 Jan., 2026].
Identification remarks	Polysiphonia variabilis Fl. Nov. Zel.
Identification ID	4eb07e6f-176c-4ac5-9fdb-708761a5344e

Event

Event ID	8a201e72-21c4-486e-ba64-28b06ba96ada
Identification remarks	Polysiphonia variabilis Fl. Nov. Zel.
Occurrence date	[date not supplied] Supplied date "1874/1875"
Date precision	YEAR_RANGE

Taxonomy

Higher classification	Eukarya \| Plantae \| Biliphyta \| Rhodophyta \| Eurhodophytina \| Florideophyceae \| Rhodymeniophycidae \| Ceramiales \| Rhodomelaceae \| Polysiphonia
Scientific name	Polysiphonia Supplied scientific name "Polysiphonia variabilis"
Identified to rank	genus Supplied as "species"
Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Rhodophyta
Class	Florideophyceae
Order	Ceramiales
Family	Rhodomelaceae
Genus	Polysiphonia
Species	Polysiphonia variabilis
Name match metric	higherMatch
Scientific name authorship	Grev. Supplied as Harv.
Name parse type	SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code	ICN

Geospatial

Country	New Zealand
State or Territory	Bay of Plenty
Locality	Tauranga. Novae Zelandiae.
Latitude	-37.6825 Supplied as: "-37.6825000000"
Longitude	176.159167 Supplied as: "176.1591666667"
Datum	EPSG:4326 Supplied datum: "epsg:4326"
Verbatim locality	Tauranga. Novae Zelandiae.
Coordinate precision	Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres)	10000.0
Georeference protocol	Google Earth
Terrestrial	true
Verbatim latitude	37° 40' 57" S
Biome	TERRESTRIAL
Continent	Oceania
Marine	false
Country Code	NZ
Verbatim longitude	176° 9' 33" E
Verbatim SRS	epsg:4326
Location ID	56e03573-0d6e-41c2-937b-512140d56454

Additional properties

material entity id	9c67693c-8bc0-4377-b1fd-600a2d68d2ec

User flagged issues

Data quality tests

Test name	Result
CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH	Warning
Coordinate rounded	Warning
Taxon match higher rank	Warning
Show/Hide 94 passed properties
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
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 georeferenced by	Passed
Missing georeference protocol	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_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 3 missing properties
Missing georeference sources	Missing
Missing georeference verification status	Missing
Missing georeference date	Missing
Show/Hide 24 tests that have not been run
Coordinate precision invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
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)

Additional political boundaries information

Political
NZ Land Provinces	Bay of Plenty Region
NZ Land Registration Districts	South Auckland

Environmental sampling for this location

Biodiversity
Occurrence Density	1092.0 frequency
Species Richness	666.0 frequency
WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality	47.0 %

AVH

The Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Occurrence record: MEL 2577428A

Dataset

Event

Taxonomy

Geospatial

Additional properties

User flagged issues

Data quality tests

Additional political boundaries information

Environmental sampling for this location

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Classification	Scientific name	Polysiphonia variabilis	Polysiphonia
	Match type		higherMatch
	Phylum id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/aani/20205090
	Family id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/aani/20206429
	Taxon concept ID		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/aani/20212969
	Order	Ceramiales	Ceramiales
	Taxon rank id		6000
	Genus	Polysiphonia	Polysiphonia
	Left		453490
	Higher classification	Eukarya \| Plantae \| Biliphyta \| Rhodophyta \| Eurhodophytina \| Florideophyceae \| Rhodymeniophycidae \| Ceramiales \| Rhodomelaceae \| Polysiphonia
	Scientific name authorship	Harv.	Grev.
	Taxon rank	species	genus
	Genus id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/aani/20212969
	Name type		SCIENTIFIC
	Nomenclatural code	ICN
	Order id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/aani/20205439
	Right		453776
	Kingdom	Plantae	Plantae
	Specific epithet	variabilis
	Class id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/aani/20205175
	Phylum		Rhodophyta
	Class	Florideophyceae	Florideophyceae
	Family	Rhodomelaceae	Rhodomelaceae
	Kingdom id		https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51795632
Event	Event ID	8a201e72-21c4-486e-ba64-28b06ba96ada
	Date precision		YEAR_RANGE
	Event date	1874/1875
Identification	Identification remarks	Polysiphonia variabilis Fl. Nov. Zel.
Identification	Identification ID	4eb07e6f-176c-4ac5-9fdb-708761a5344e
Occurrence	Rights holder		Royal Botanic Gardens Board
	Institution ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/institution/70fbf720-63a3-4e3c-b844-ee96091880e0
	Type		PhysicalObject
	Catalog number	MEL 2577428A
	Occurrence status	present	PRESENT
	Basis of record	PreservedSpecimen	PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
	Modified	2026-01-29 11:17:18	2026-01-29T11:17:18
	Recorded by ID	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2600462	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2600462
	Record number	s.n.
	Collection code	MEL
	Occurrence ID	9c67693c-8bc0-4377-b1fd-600a2d68d2ec
	Collection ID	https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/7777d910-553a-45ac-b0e5-635261c1e992
	Preparations	Sheet
	Institution code	MEL
	Recorded by	Berggren, S.
	Occurrence remarks	[Dr. Sven Berggren (1837 - 1917) visited New Zealand from Jan. 1 1874 to April 1875. He travelled to Wellington, Christchurch, West Coast, Auckland, Invercargill, Otago, Bay of Islands, Bay of Plenty - among other localities. See: 'Sven Berggren in New Zealand' (1970), Turnbull Lib. Rec. vol. 3, iss. 1. – M. Simpson, 29 Jan., 2026].
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	New Zealand	New Zealand
	Decimal latitude	-37.6825000000	-37.6825
	Terrestrial	true	true
	Locality	Tauranga. Novae Zelandiae.	Tauranga. Novae Zelandiae.
	Decimal longitude	176.1591666667	176.159167
	State province	Bay of Plenty	Bay of Plenty
	Verbatim locality	Tauranga. Novae Zelandiae.
	Verbatim latitude	37° 40' 57" S
	Biome		TERRESTRIAL
	Continent	Oceania
	Coordinate uncertainty in meters	10000.0	10000.0
	Marine	false	false
	Country code	NZ	NZ
	Verbatim longitude	176° 9' 33" E
	Georeference protocol	Google Earth
	Verbatim SRS	epsg:4326
	Geodetic datum	epsg:4326	EPSG:4326
	Location ID	56e03573-0d6e-41c2-937b-512140d56454