Herbarium voucher specimens collected from subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku by Lieutenant Rathouis of the French Transit of Venus Expedition in 1873/74, identified by Thomas Kirk (1881), and housed in the Otago Herbarium.
| OTA # | Full Name | Collector | Year collected | Locality | |
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OTA 020316 | Anisotome latifolia (male) | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020317 | Anisotome latifolia | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020312 | Anaphalioides bellidioides | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020314 | Celmisia verbascifolia subspecies | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020313 | Leptinella plumosa | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020310 | Stellaria decipiens | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020320 | Tillaea moschata | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020304 | Dracophyllum longifolium | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020319 | Epilobium confertifolium | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020318 | Epilobium pedunculare | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020307 | Ranunculus pinguis | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020307 | Ranunculus subscaposus | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020334 | Bulbinella rossii | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020332 | Carex appressa | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020331 | Carex trifida | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020328 | Oreobolus pectinatus | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020327 | Aporostylis bifolia | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020329 |
Poa foliosa | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020323 | Blechnum durum | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020325 | Histiopteris incisa | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020326 | Hypolepis millefolium | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020335 | Hypolepis subantarctica | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020338 | Hypolepis subantarctica | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020330 | Hymenophyllum multifidum | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 020337 | Huperzia varia | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
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OTA 052276 | Cladonia pityrea | Lieutenant Rathouis | 1873/74 | Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku |
Note: Celmisia verbascifolia, Asteraceae has never been observed as present on Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku. The specimen included with this collection (OTA 20314) was likely an Aotearoa New Zealand specimen mixed into the Campbell Island collection, during identification by botanist Thomas Kirk.
References
Hartley KH. 2018. Historical botany of the 1874 French Transit of Venus Expedition to subantarctic Campbell Island. Dunedin, New Zealand: [Unpublished thesis for the Postgraduate Diploma of Science (PGDipSci)]. Otago, N.Z.: Department of Botany, University of Otago.
Filhol H. 1885. Botanique. [Botany] In 1885. Recueil de mémoires, rapports et documents relatifs à l'observation du passage de Venus sur le Soleil. [Collection of memoirs, reports and documents relating to the observation of the passage of Venus over the Sun.] Vol. III, Part 2. Paris: Academy of Sciences, pp. 1-17. French.
Kirk T. 1881. Notes on plants from Campbell Island. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 14:387-389.
Photographed by Karri Horton Hartley, University of Otago, with permission.