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dc.contributor.authorde Lange, Peter
dc.contributor.authorLarge, Mark
dc.contributor.authorShepherd, L.D.
dc.contributor.authorRolfe, J.R.
dc.contributor.authorGardner, R.O.
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-16T20:58:12Z
dc.date.available2019-10-16T20:58:12Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-27
dc.identifier.issn2382-5812
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/4746
dc.description.abstractCoprosma solandri, an enigmatic species known only from the type collection, was described in 1897 by New Zealand botanist Thomas Kirk, based on material included in a duplicate set of Banks & Solander specimens, sent at Kirk’s request, by the Natural History Museum (BM) in London to the Colonial Museum in Wellington in 1895. Here we revisit Coprosma solandri concluding that the specimens on which that name was based were not collected in New Zealand. We conclude the type of Coprosma solandri was derived from Hawaiian material of C. ernodeoides A.Gray that was accidentally sent to New Zealand on the assumption that Banks & Solander had collected it from there. Although available evidence precludes definite linkage to a specific collector, we raise the possibility that the original material derives from an Archibald Menzies collection made in 1793 in Hawai’i. The recognition that Coprosma solandri and C. ernodeoides are conspecific finally removes a puzzling Coprosma from the New Zealand flora 122 years after it was described and accepted uncritically as an endemic to that country.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherSingapore Botanic Gardensen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/publications/gardens-bulletin-singapore/-/media/sbg/gardens-bulletin/gbs_71_s2_y2019/71_s2_11_y2019_v71s2_gbs_pg143.pdfen_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjectCoprosma solandri (Rubiaceae)en_NZ
dc.subjectBanks & Solanderen_NZ
dc.subjectKirk, Thomas, (1828–1898)en_NZ
dc.subjectNew Zealanden_NZ
dc.subjectHawaiien_NZ
dc.subjectendemic speciesen_NZ
dc.subjectCoprosma ernodeoidesen_NZ
dc.subjecthistory of botanyen_NZ
dc.titleThe endemic that never was — resolving the status of Coprosma solandri (Rubiaceae)en_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.date.updated2019-10-15T13:30:19Z
dc.subject.marsden060310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomyen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationde Lange, P.J., Large, M.F., Shepherd, L., Rolfe, J.R., & Gardner, R.O. (2019). The endemic that never was — resolving the status of Coprosma solandri (Rubiaceae). Gardens' Bulletin Singapore, 71(Suppl, 2), 143-153.en_NZ
unitec.publication.spage143en_NZ
unitec.publication.lpage153en_NZ
unitec.publication.volume71(Suppl, 2)en_NZ
unitec.publication.titleGardens' Bulletin Singaporeen_NZ
unitec.peerreviewedyesen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationTe Papa (Museum)en_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationNew Zealand. Department of Conservationen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationAuckland War Memorial Museumen_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms64514en_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms64523
unitec.publication.placeSingaporeen_NZ
unitec.relation.urihttps://www.unitec.ac.nz/about-us/labelling-mix-up-traced-back-to-captain-cook-s-first-voyage-means-plant-no-longer-a-new-zealand-native
unitec.institution.studyareaNatural Sciences


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