Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 52/08
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
25 Feb 2008
Start date:
2008-02-25
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Glasshouse, cultivated.
Notes:
Adult. Climbing plant with ± fleshy stems. Juvenile leaves appressed to host trunk, mottled whitish on dark green background above. Leaves on adult shoots not appressed and thus spreading at different angles, uniformly medium green above, slightly asymmetric at base unlike juvenile leaves. Spathe cup-shaped, c. 7 x 9 cm, firm, white inside, dark green outside & shining. Spadix c. 6 x 2 cm, narrow ellipitic, cream at anthesis. Adult shoots high on host tree and spreading from it in higher light conditions.