Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, 115 Packe Street.
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 88/94
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
25-JAN-1994
Start date:
1994-01-25
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated in dry sunny site.
Notes:
Small succulent with lateral stems erect, usually 1-2cm high. Leaves thick, c.4x3cm, broad elliptic, grey or grey-green, glandular hairy, flattened ventrally, rounded dorsally. Scape +/- erect, pink, glandular-hairy. Sepals greenish-pink, c. 2mm long. Petals 4-5mm long, elliptic, whitish or pale pink with deep pink central line on reverse and recurving towards apex. Stamens pale pink. Styles and upper part of carpels deep pink, former recurved. Glands yellow, suborbicular, c. 0.5mm long (including stalk).