South Otago, Catlins State Forest Park, Tautuku, near Florence Hill
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-46.5854 169.421
Verbatim locality:
South Otago, Catlins State Forest Park, Tautuku, near Florence Hill.
Verbatim collector:
Sykes W.R. 19/94
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
6-JAN-1994
Start date:
1994-01-06
Land District:
Otago Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
G47 35- 96- (WGS84 -46.58542 169.421395)
Altitudes:
from 200m
Habitat:
Indigenous forest margin, on slope.
Notes:
Large shrub 2-2.5m high, forming a dense thicket. Stems green. Leaves glaucous beneath; petiole dark red. Inflorescence ± pendent, bracts, peduncles and calyx dark reddish-purple. Corolla white except for reddish-purple flush in outside of tube, the whole corolla 1.7-2cm long, funnelform; lobes 6-7mm long, widely spreading, ovate-elliptic. Very common in this narrow band of habitat almost absent from forest.