Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Ashley Arnold Reserve
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6236 172.733
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Ashley Arnold Reserve
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 86/02
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
20 Aug 2002
Start date:
2002-08-20
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Shrubbery margin by overgrown track.
Notes:
Vine. Cladodes distichous. Flowers white with faint pink flush; tepals c. 2.5 mm long, elliptic, patent. Stamens = tepals. Fruit 6-9 mm diam., globose to lobed and wider than long, shining orange. Seed c. 5 mm diam., shining black. Specimen with thick fibrous roots from young spontaneous plant. Specimen with reproductive parts from either a relic of cultivation or a spontaneous plant also. Only plants seen.