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Taxon: Dirca palustris L.
Family: Thymelaeaceae

Collector: Nee, M.H.   65361   

Date: 2019-08-16

Verbatim Date: 16 Aug. 2019

Locality: United States, Wisconsin, Richland, 3 miles SE of center of Richland Center

43.311667  -90.331111

Verbatim Coordinates: 43° 18' 42" N 90° 19' 52" W; TRS: T10N R01E sec 26 SE4SE4

Elevation: 290 meters

Verbatim Elevation: 290 m

Habitat: Young woods on ridgetop, Tilia americana, Juglans nigra, Carya oavta,Ulmus rubra, heavily pastured by cows and sheep many decades ago, with a few old open grown Quercus alba

Occurrence Remarks: This population the only one know for many km around, even though similar habitat common; the number and size of the shrubs has not changed appreciably since first noticed in the late 1950s, and this collection form the same population as Nee 827 (WIS) on 27 June 1968 (WIS) and Nee 1773 (MADw 24696, WIS) on 20 April 1969. Voucher for wood specimens at Lw, MADw, RSAw. This collection featured in N. Mourik & M. Nee, 2020, Shrubwoods of the World: Celastrus Scandens, World of Wood, Journal of the International Wood Collectors Society.; This shrub about the largest, 1.5 m. tall, 5.5 cm. in diameter, 19 years old; wood uniformly white and soft , with no differentiation into sapwood and heartwood; bark very tough and fibrous. Some leaves with characteristic leaf miners (probably Leucanthiza dircella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)). No flowers or fruits at this time of year.

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Owner: University of Wisconsin - Madison (WIS-VP)

Record Id: 7f986677-68b4-49b5-9e50-6b45dd217d6a

Occurrence ID (GUID): 21b1a57f-cf8a-45da-bb55-b2f4207f8693

For additional information on this occurrence, please contact: Mary Ann Feist (mfeist@wisc.edu)