Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Park
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6593 172.703
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Park
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 47/12
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
18 Aug 2012
Start date:
2012-08-18
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated in semi-shade.
Notes:
Clump-forming plant with numerous, erect, unbranched stems 60-70 cm high and 7-8 mm diam. Leaves dull green above, paler and glaucescent below with elevated whitish midrib. Inflorescence terminal. Capitual c. 1.7-2 cm across the broad and rounded yellow-green bract leaves. Gland c. 2 mm wide, lunate, yellowish. Ovary white tomentose; styles 3 diverging, bifid.