CHR 603393 – Sedum commixtum Moran & Hutchison
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 603393
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
02 December 2008
Database record updated:
16 June 2009
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Sedum commixtum Moran & Hutchison
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2003-10-14 (Verbatim: 14 Oct 2003)
Preferred name:
Sedum commixtum Moran & Hutchison
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Rosales
Family:
Crassulaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
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 122/03
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
14 Oct 2003
Start date:
2003-10-14
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Rock bank, amongst large stones.
Notes:
Sprawling diffuse succulent with rather slender, brittle, pinkish stems, sometimes rooting at nodes. Leaves tending to be in terminal clusters but fall so readily that stems have appearance of being leafless, individual leaves to c. 3.3 x 1.7 cm, obovate, glaucous, usually with reddish purple flush apically, to c. 8 mm thick, convex beneath. Inflor. a dense (glomerate) head usually 1.5-2 cm diam.; bracts and calyx glaucescent. Flowers with rather musty smell. Sepals thick and ± rounded apically. Petals 7-8 mm long, ± broad triangular; lower half whitish; upper half strongly reflexed and lying between sepals; upper surface dark red or reddish-brown. Stamens 3-4 mm long, pinkish-red, including anthers, attached to c. middle of petals. Styles red-tipped. Glands cresent-shaped, very low.
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