Te Waipapa / Diamond Harbour (Bay), Banks Peninsula
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.63 172.731
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 133/02
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
11 Dec 2002
Start date:
2002-12-11
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Relic of cultivation.
Notes:
Sub-arborescent plant with a very short stout trunk c. 20 cm high. Leaves stiff, erect, ± concave adaxially, glaucous, pungent- tipped. Inflor. c. 1 m high, erect. Flowers white, nearly over, campanulate, + pendent. Bracts ± purple-flushed. Tepals 5-6 cm long, elliptic, acutely and ± darkly tipped. Stamens c. 2 cm long; filaments widening distally, minutely papillate. Ovary c. 2 cm long. A typical gardener's Yuccagloriosa.