Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, St. Albans, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
WR. Sykes 128/00
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
16 May 2000
Start date:
2000-05-16
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Garden border
Notes:
Cormous herb, the corms with brown tunics splitting into parallel fibres. Leaves developing at flowering time; midrib on adaxial surface whitish. Perianth with white tube; pale mauve segments c. 5 - 6 x 1.3 - 1.8 cm with pale yellow base adaxially; apex of segments acute or subacute. Anthers orange yellow. Style deep orange, its 3 main branches each further divided. Seeding around garden spontaneously.