Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, St Albans, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 26/04
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
27 Jan 2004
Start date:
2004-01-27
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Relic of cultivation.
Notes:
Succulent herb with fairly long prostrate or spreading decumbent stems. Leaves dense and concentrated towards shoot ends on erect distal part of stems, individually to 11 x 4 mm, subterete and semi-flattened above, shining uniformly bright green, subacute. Cymes terminal, few flowered. Sepals 3.5-4 mm long, conspicuous, lanceolate. Petals c. 6 x 2.5 mm, ovate, white, acute; proximal part slightly imbricate but free; rest of petal widespreading. Stamens 4-4.5 mm long. Styles < stamens, pale green; carpels becoming rosy-pink. Scales small and square. Plants spread a little way from site of planting.