Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, St Albans, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 47/06
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
3 Dec 2006
Start date:
2006-12-03
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Front of shrubbery. Spontaneous.
Notes:
Herb with flexuous stem to c. 1 m high, rather clammy; leaves aromatic when bruised, variously lobed or dissected. Corolla 1.7-1.8 cm long to apex c. 1 cm across the broad sub campanulate tube with almost straight sides, rusty-red to almost scarlet on upper (exposed) side of corolla, pale greenish-yellow beneath. Stamens with pale green filaments. Staminode rather broad, becoming dark crimson. Scattered plants around garden, originating from the cultivated plant represented by Sykes 329/93 (CHR 494025).