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:
WRS [Sykes WR] 536/99
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
27 10 99
Start date:
1999-10-27
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
M36 86- 26- (WGS84 -43.668577 172.70847)
Habitat:
In pot.
Notes:
Young shrub or small tree c. 1.5 m high; habit dense. Bracts orange glandular-punctate. Calyx black hairy, especially on margins. Corolla mauve-blue, paling to white towards base of petals. Standard with limb c. 1.2 x 1.8 cm, tending subreniform, at right angles to claw. Wings c. 8 mm long, ± enclosing keel. A single plant but several others have appeared from time to time in pots from A.R. Arnold's, Diamond Harbour garden. Adventive.