CHR 483882 – Osmanthus heterophyllus (G.Don) P.S.Green
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 483882
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
05 May 1994
Database record updated:
06 December 2002
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Osmanthus heterophyllus
Determiner:
Sykes WR
Identification date:
1993-05-12 (Verbatim: 12-MAY-1993)
Preferred name:
Osmanthus heterophyllus (G.Don) P.S.Green
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Scrophulariales
Family:
Oleaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Port Hills, near Tai Tapu, Otahuna
Verbatim locality:
Port Hills, near Tai Tapu, Otahuna
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 255/93
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
12-MAY-1993
Start date:
1993-05-12
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Ecological District:
Port Hills
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated relic.
Notes:
Small tree 4-5m high, evergreen, dense habit. Shoots pale brownish-green. Leaves coriaceous, dark shining green above; prickly and holly-like on vegetative shoots near base. Flowers white, not very fragrant; corolla lobes c.4mm long, broadly elliptic. Fruit c.1cm long, +/- ellipsoid, becoming dark purplish.
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