Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Cultivated. Christchurch, St. Albans, 115 Packe Str.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 18/07
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
12 Feb 2007
Start date:
2007-02-12
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivation relic, sheltered rock garden on Oamaru limestone.
Notes:
Trailing succulent herb; stems rooting at nodes, only decumbent and turning upwards distally. Leaves flat, ± shining above, tending to form terminal rosettes, rather light green even when in sunlight except sometimes the pink lower surfaces. Cymes of ± secund erect flowers. Sepals c. 6 mm long, narrow linear-lanceolate, light ± brownish-green. Petals 1.2-1.4 x c. 0.3 cm, narrow oblong-lanceolate, pale pink (at least in upper ⅔rds. Stamens much < petals); filaments white; anthers deep orange-red: Glands short & broad, concave. First occasion when flowers produced I think. Probably from the same stock as Sykes 68/96 originally collected wild near Nugget Point, S. Otago.