Chatham Island, near Te Matarae Road, Rapanui area
Verbatim locality:
Chatham Island, near Te Matarae Road, Rapanui area
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 521/93
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
7-DEC-1993
Start date:
1993-12-07
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Altitudes:
from 10m
Habitat:
Roadside, on heap of spoil.
Notes:
Sprawling branched herb with stems black or dark purple, to 60 or 70cm long. Leaves deep green, often flushed purple. Pedicels and calyx dark purple. Corolla white, starlike; lobes 6-7mm long, lanceolate. Fruiting calyx reflexed. Fruit shining, still green when collected to 8mm diameter. Uncommon.