Cochlearia danica

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 60 meters (198 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cochlearia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. danica (Early Scurvygrass) · C. draba (Globed-Podded Hoarycress Or Whitetop) · C. groenlandica (Danish Scurvygrass) · C. officinalis (Common Scurveygrass) · C. officinalis anglica (Common Scurvygrass) · C. officinalis officinalis (Common Scurvygrass) · C. polonica (Polish Scurvy-Grass) · C. sessilifolia (Sessile-Leaf Scurvy-Grass) · C. tatrae (Tatra Scurvy-Grass) · C. tridactylites (Cochlearia)

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Bundesamt für Naturschutz / Zentralstelle für Phytodiversität Deutschland, Bundesamt fuer Naturschutz / Zentralstelle fuer Phytodiversitaet Deutschland
• Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien
• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• GBIF-Spain, Aranzadi Zientzi Elkartea
• GBIF-Spain, CIBIO, Alicante:ABH-GBIF
• GBIF-Spain, Herbario Universidad de Málaga: MGC-Cormófitos
• GBIF-Spain, Herbario de la Universidad de Sevilla, SEV
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Univ. Herbarium SALAMANCA: SALA
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad del País Vasco/EHU, Bilbao: Herbario BIO
• Herbario SANT, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, SANT herbarium vascular plant collection
• Jyväskylä University Museum - The Section of Natural Sciences, Vascular plant collection of Jyvaskyla University Museum
• NLBIF, Limnodata
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Vascular Plant Herbarium, Oslo
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Vascular Plants, Field notes, Oslo
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Botany registration database by Danish botanists
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Botany
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Herbarium of Oskarshamn
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Plants
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Botanical Society of the British Isles - Vascular Plants Database
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Environment and Heritage Service - EHS Species Datasets
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Joint Nature Conservation Committee - Vegetation surveys of coastal shingle in Great Britain

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2666262
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Mus-1055
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 5190438
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:281414-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 450553

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 122.660 based on 5,461 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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