Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 467/96
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
12-NOV-1996
Start date:
1996-11-12
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Cultivated in sheltered sunny site outside. Succulent subshrub, the main branches almost horizontal. Leaves tending erect, to c.4.8cm long, subterete, c.6mm wide, cylindrical, glaucous. Sepals triangular. Petals c.6mm long, yellow, oblanceolate. Stamens erect, forming a cone with the carpels. Filaments yellow, with white hair tuft basally. Plant ex Auckland Botanic Garden.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Cannot name sp. No yellow-flowered ones mentioned in literature seen, but erect cone-like stamens must put it in Ruschia.
WR Sykes, 12 -12- 2008