Christchurch, Port Hills, Victoria Park, near ridge top
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6226 172.774
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Port Hills, Victoria Park, near ridge top.
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 7/85
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
20-JAN-1985
Start date:
1985-01-20
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 1:
S84 (WGS84 -43.620892 172.774574)
Altitudes:
from 300m
Habitat:
Arboretum on south side of ridge. Cultivated.
Notes:
Tree 12 - 13m. Trunk fairly smooth. Bark not collected. Habit roughly pyramidal. Shoots brown. Lvs. glaucous except where in shade on lower branches, upper ones on shoot spreading upwards and slightly backwards.
On lower side of shoot more or less spreading sideways. Cones 19 - 21 × c. 8.5 cm at widest point, slightly tapering towards apex; bract scales prominently exserted and reflexed so that surface of ovuliferous scales almost obscured. 2 or 3 scattered plants.