Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.576389 172.773353
Verbatim locality:
Canterbury, Port Hills, Sumner, near bottom of Scarborough Hill
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 117/86
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
22-OCT-1986
Start date:
1986-10-22
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
N36 91- 37- (WGS84 -43.569713 172.770834)
Abundance:
Occasional
Habitat:
On steep, west-facing slope.
Abundance:
Occasional
Notes:
Arborescent with stem 20-30cm below inflorescence leaves. Ordinary leaves in rosettes 10-12cm diameter; outer leaves 6-7 x 2.2-2.4cm, 4-5mm thick, green slightly concave above, ± convex below, obovate, margin slightly brown towards mucronate apex. Inflorescence glabrous, pyramidal, c.12 x 12cm. Calyx 3-4mm long; sepals triangular acute. Corolla straw-yellow. Petals (8)-9, 8-9mm long, c.2mm wide, linear, stamens and carpels 5-7mm, ± straw yellow. Scales almost rectangular, c.1.2mm long, widening a little towards slightly retuse apex. Adventive, a small population; not as common as A. arboreum which grows with it. Crassulaceae community.