Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 21/02
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
28 Jan 2002
Start date:
2002-01-28
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Sheltered frame. Cultivated.
Notes:
Herbaceous perennial dying down to ground level in winter. Leaves whitish-grey, woolly, opposite. Stems very short. Phyllaries in several series, all white floccose; outermost ones very small. Rays yellow, female?; limb c. 10 mm long, 5-toothed; claw c. 4 mm long, hairy outside. Disc florets bisexual. Style branches with 2 very long arms. Corolla of disc florets narrow tubular, shortly 5-lobed. Receptacle with several pink pointed scales (or very short awns) around florets. Pappus of 1 row of barbed bristles.