Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, St. Albans, 115 Packe Street.
Verbatim collector:
WR Sykes 4/00
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
10 2 00
Start date:
2000-02-10
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated in fairly sunny site.
Notes:
Erect annual herb with shining pinkish-brown stems; nodes ± white pilose. Leaves subterete, ± flattened above. Stem apices with white woolly hair tufts around flowers. Sepals c. 8 mm long, broad triangular. Petals rose-pink c. 2 - 2.3 x 1.7 - 2 cm, broad obovate, bilobed. Filaments dark red. Style > stamens, orange; stigmas reflexing. Seeds metallic grey with very small tubercles.