Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 56/02
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
11 4 2002
Start date:
2002-04-11
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated
Notes:
Clump - forming bromeliad with the lower part of leaf rosette forming a broad cylinder c. 3 cm diam. Leaves curving outwards above lower part, coriaceous, remaining concabe, strongly transversely banded with white farina above otherwise dark green, mainly white farinose beneath except for a few dark green transverse lines or bands. Inflor. arising from centre of rosette; peduncle to c. 30 cm long, brownish-pink with dense floccose farina. Bracts bright pink with some white farina. Inflorescence 8-10 cm long, cone-like, with a dense spiral of pungent-tipped, erect or suberect bracts. Calyx 10-11 mm long, light pink, sepals ± triangular, rigid. Corolla c. 2.5 cm long; rose except for the whitish almost filiform tube; lobes broad elliptic but remaining concave, c. 1 cm long.