Lincoln, Canterbury Agriculture and Science Centre
Verbatim locality:
Canterbury, Christchurch, Canterbury Science Centre
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 386/92
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
16-DEC-1992
Start date:
1992-12-16
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Cultivated in foyer of building.
Notes:
Branched, soft-wooded subshrub, with stems 80-90cm high. Lamina of leaves dark shining green and spotted silvery grey above. Flowers pink, including pedicels, +/- drooping. Male flowers sepals (2) c. 1.4 × 1.7 cm, very broadly ovate, glabrous; petals (2) c. 9 × 3 mm, ± narrowly elliptic.Female flowers with ovary wings 6 - 7 mm wide; margin rounded apart from the tapering base, pink.