Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Park
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6593 172.703
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Estate
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 6/03
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
7 Jan 2003
Start date:
2003-01-07
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Top of rock wall, spontaneous.
Notes:
Succulent herb rooting at lowest nodes and tending mat-forming. Leaves dense towards apex of short vegetative shoots, usually 10-20 mm long, subterete & somewhat flattened dorso-ventrally, bright green. Inflor. on erect stems to c. 25 cm high; rachis with abundant forward-pointing leaves. Inflor. branches with ± secund flowers. Sepals 3-4 mm long, elliptic or ovate-elliptic. Petals 6-7 mm long, yellow, ± elliptic. Stamens in 2 unequal whorls, longer approx petal length; filaments and anthers yellow. Styles yellow,. Scales ± square, becoming yellow. Spreading vegetatively by detached pieces.