Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 41/02
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
27 3 2002
Start date:
2002-03-27
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated in glasshouse
Notes:
Herb with pseudostems and petioles to c. 80 cm high, these hispid and dark green purple; lamina reddish-purple beneath, pale grey above except for narrow dark green bands along midrib, main veins and margins. Inflor. flattened and distichous with furry brown acuminate spathes. Perianth white, c. 6 mm long, with yellow inside inner segments (staminodes) longest. Probably a form of Ctenanthesetosa.