CHR 568491 B – Epiphyllum oxypetalum (DC.) Haw.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 568491 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
16 January 2004
Database record updated:
19 February 2004
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Epiphyllum oxypetalum (DC.) Haw.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1999-12-10 (Verbatim: 10 12 99)
Preferred name:
Epiphyllum oxypetalum (DC.) Haw.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Cactaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
[Unknown]
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
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 549/99
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 in glasshouse.
Notes:
Succulent shrub with short terete lower main stem, otherwise stems (cladodes) flat except for raised midrib and to c. 6 cm wide, glabrous except for margin groups of areolar bristles, these ± covering the whole surface in young stems; margins thin. Flowers very fragrant nocturnally, lasting several days. Sepals to 9 - 10 cm long; i.e. inner ones, c. 1 cm wide, pale green or pink-tinged, linear. Corolla "tube" 13 - 14 cm long, pale green, with soft forward curving spines; 9 - 10 x 2.5 - 3 cm, elliptic-oblanceolate, white; limb 12 - 14 cm across at anthesis. Style 8 - 9 cm long, white, = longest stamens; stigmas c. 1 cm long, white.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to B
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