Mount Albert Research Centre, 120 Mount Albert Road, Mount Albert, Auckland
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-36.890167 174.726167
Verbatim locality:
Auckland, Auckland City, Mt Albert Research Station (DSIR)
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 169/90
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
22 Aug 1990
Start date:
1990-08-22
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
On steep bank facing ± north. Cultivated
Notes:
Succulent with decumbent stems. Leaves to 4.5 x 3.5cm, rectangular-ovate dull green and finely punctate. Corolla rosy-crimson outside in bud, white inside. See supplementary label.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Sepals c. 1.0 - 1.2 cm long, green, ± triangular. Corolla star-like. Petals 4, 5.5-6 × c. 2mm, ovate-lanceolate, at anthesis white inside, pink or rose outside, sharply acute. Filaments 3-3.5 mm, white; anthers c. 1.5 mm, pink or mauve-pink.
Pistils c. 4 mm long, white. Glands yellowish.
WR Sykes, 22 Aug 1990