Plant Collection And Identification
1. Your Herbarium collection should consist of: • At least 8 weed mounted specimens, each specimen with a complete label. A standard artists Sketch Book approximately 37 x 27 cm (or A3) has suitable pages on which to mount specimens. Mounting of specimens may be done with good quality tape (archival 3M), water-soluble glue such as PVA wood glue or sewing using dental tape.
• Your specimens should include: 8 specimens (min.) of declared weeds.
• All material should be ideally in a reproductive state, i.e. it must be flowering or fruiting or both. If no reproductive material is observed you should indicate how many plants (approximately), where you observed these plants in the field and how you have used vegetative features to identify the specimen, before you chose to collect without reproductive material.
1) SINGAPPORE DAISY - Sphagneticola trilobata
Collected on the 8.03.2015 at 25 Jamieson Road TRINITY BEACH CAIRNS QLD 4879
GPS Location:
Specimen is a spreading herbaceous plant with dark green leaves approximately 5cm long and 3cm wide with round yellow flowers approximately 2cm in diametre. Where herbarium sample was taken the plant is covering the whole garden bed that runs along the fence on the left hand side of the backyard.
KINGDOM: Plantae (It’s a plant)
PHYLUM: Anthophyta (It’s a flowering plant)
CLASS: Dicotyledon (It’s flower is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers on a disk each of these flowers producing a seed.) This tells me it is part of the “daisy family” and is a composite flower. This tells me the class, order and family.
CLADE: Eudicot
CLADE: Asterids
ORDER: Asterales
FAMILY: Compositae
SUB-FAMILY: Asteraceae (herbaceous mat forming spreading plant with round stems rooting at nodes with a fibrous root system) (Leaves are tri-lobed
GENUS: Sphagneticola
SPECIES: S. Trilobata
- It has a very wide ecological tolerance range.
- Grows best in sunny areas with well-drained, moist soil at low elevations.
- Listed in
• Your specimens should include: 8 specimens (min.) of declared weeds.
• All material should be ideally in a reproductive state, i.e. it must be flowering or fruiting or both. If no reproductive material is observed you should indicate how many plants (approximately), where you observed these plants in the field and how you have used vegetative features to identify the specimen, before you chose to collect without reproductive material.
1) SINGAPPORE DAISY - Sphagneticola trilobata
Collected on the 8.03.2015 at 25 Jamieson Road TRINITY BEACH CAIRNS QLD 4879
GPS Location:
Specimen is a spreading herbaceous plant with dark green leaves approximately 5cm long and 3cm wide with round yellow flowers approximately 2cm in diametre. Where herbarium sample was taken the plant is covering the whole garden bed that runs along the fence on the left hand side of the backyard.
KINGDOM: Plantae (It’s a plant)
PHYLUM: Anthophyta (It’s a flowering plant)
CLASS: Dicotyledon (It’s flower is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers on a disk each of these flowers producing a seed.) This tells me it is part of the “daisy family” and is a composite flower. This tells me the class, order and family.
CLADE: Eudicot
CLADE: Asterids
ORDER: Asterales
FAMILY: Compositae
SUB-FAMILY: Asteraceae (herbaceous mat forming spreading plant with round stems rooting at nodes with a fibrous root system) (Leaves are tri-lobed
GENUS: Sphagneticola
SPECIES: S. Trilobata
- It has a very wide ecological tolerance range.
- Grows best in sunny areas with well-drained, moist soil at low elevations.
- Listed in