Rock-gold Flower · Guanophila maritima

A coastal plant 12–20 cm tall. It spreads thick succulent green leaves in a rosette and blooms dense clusters of small yellow daisy-like flowers. It roots only in rock crevices enriched by seabird droppings, enduring salt and sea wind.

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Field Note

Habitat

Sheer seabird-nesting stacks and skerries of the North Atlantic. Coastal rock battered without cease by tide and salt wind.

Local name

Bird Flower

Folklore

Locally, cliffs where it blooms in masses were taken as a sign that seabirds would gather and fishing would be good.

Locator

Coordinates

60.2°N 1.3°W

Sheer seabird-nesting stacks and skerries of the North Atlantic

Record

This flower blooms only on rocks where seabirds are.

On other cliffs it is hardly ever found.

The sheer sea stacks of the North Atlantic.

Rock battered without cease by tide and salt wind.

The Rock-gold Flower roots only in crevices enriched by seabird droppings.

It spreads thick succulent green leaves and blooms small yellow daisy-like flowers in clusters.

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Classification

Classification & specimen data

Scientific name

Guanophila maritima L. Fontaine, 2006

Taxonomy

Plantae › Angiosperms › Dicotyledons › Guanophilales › Guanophilaceae › Guanophila › maritima

Voucher

AVF-024 · Holotype
Archive of Vanished Flora (AVF)

Conservation

✝ EX — Extinct Last seen 2009

Collector

E. Mori
2006-01-07

Synonym

Guanoopsis maritima R. Salvà, 2004

Protologue (Latin)

Herba parva rosulata, foliis crassis glaberrimis, floribus parvis stellatis. Typus: Sheer seabird-nesting stacks and skerries of the North Atlantic. Species iam extincta.

Discovered / Described

2006 / 2006

Height

12〜20cm

Life form

Rosette perennial

Phyllotaxy

Basal (rosette)

Chromosome

2n = 14

Flowering

Hours at low tide (twice daily)