Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 22/02
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
28 1 2002
Start date:
2002-01-28
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Cultivated
Notes:
Herb; presumably perennial, not aromatic. Leaves very pale beneath and with prominent raised vein mosaic. Capitula erect at anthesis. Phyllaries with to 10 nerves. Rays and disc very dark, reddish-black. Ray florets (corolla) c. 2 x 1.3 cm, obovate, slightly toothed distally. Scales on receptacle almost = disc florets; outer ones dark reddish. Pappus of shortly barbed, dark red bristles. Stigmas dark reddish.