Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 78/96
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
21-MAR-1996
Start date:
1996-03-21
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Shrubby perennial forming a small bush c.80cm high. Leaves green or hoary, more or less densely appressed hairy (hairs bifid mostly). Flowers all the year almost, scent slight. Petals light purple, 2-2.3cm long (claw c.1cm); limb 1.3-1.5cm wide, more or less reflexed. Corolla limb almost glabrous except for a few hairs along midvein near base on lower side. Calyx greenish-purple, densely appressed hairy. Plant several years old (annually pruned) but has never formed siliques. True Erysimum linifolium (Pers.) Gay has much smaller and narrower petals.