Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Ashley Arnold Reserve
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6236 172.733
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Ashley Arnold Reserve
Verbatim collector:
WR Sykes 531/99
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
13 10 99
Start date:
1999-10-13
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Shrub or young tree < 2 m high, evergreen. Leaves pale green beneath. Flowers fragrant (port wine scent like M. figo). Bud scales brown pubescent. Petals of outer whorl 5, each c. 4.5 x 3 cm, broad elliptic-obovate white, flushed purple towards base & apex; those of inner whorl c. 6, shorter & narrower. Stamens margined purple.