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:
W.R. Sykes 127/02
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
3 Dec 2002
Start date:
2002-12-03
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Rock garden, amongst spreading succulents.
Notes:
Erect, bushy, annual, semi-succulent herbs to 30 cm high or more; stems greenish-white; angles 3, red-lined. Leaves dark glossy green above, pale beneath, scarcely succulent. Flowers erect. Sepals 4-5 mm long, elliptic, green except for hyaline margin and orange mainly submarginal glands. Corolla white; tube 2-3 mm long; lobes 7-10 mm long, reflexing oblong. Stamens epipetalous; filaments white, almost narrow triangular, glandular proximally. Capsules globose and shining. A number of plants, regenerating from seed spontaneuosly.