Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 208/97
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
14-MAY-1997
Start date:
1997-05-14
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
In glasshouse.
Notes:
Rhizomatous herb with short pseudostems. Petioles to about 40cm high, including pulvinus 2-3cm long, last geniculate and inconspicuous, pink-purple (+ sheath) when young. Lamina to about 37 x 11cm, more or less elliptic, tending to slope downwards, dark green above with paler midrib, deep purple beneath with pink-purple midrib. Old inflorescence with bract approximately 8cm long, pink-purple. Sheets A and B.