Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Park
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6593 172.703
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Estate
Verbatim collector:
WR. Sykes 548/99
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
8 12 99
Start date:
1999-12-08
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated on rock garden.
Notes:
Succulent herb with very short stem and large rosette of leaves terminating it. Leaves to c. 19 x 13 cm, light green, downy, obovate, ± flat above, slightly keeled beneath. Inflor. 40 - 50 cm high. Bracts persisting up the flower stem, broad and rounded with cordate base. Cymes scorpioid (with secund flowers). Flower 8 - 10 merous. Sepals triangular, green or red-tinged. Petals 7 - 8 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, cream, > sepals. Stamens with whitish filaments. Scales subreniform, c. 1 mm wide and 0.5 mm deep, translucent. First time species has flowered.