Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Ashley Arnold Reserve
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6236 172.733
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Ashley Arnold Reserve
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 58/12
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
27 Oct 2012
Start date:
2012-10-27
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
West-facing slope, originally cultivated
Notes:
Large aromatic, sprawling subshrub, forming small dense stands, the plants to c. 1 m high. Flowers in clusters. Sepals reflexing, prominently reddish-brown inside. Flowers ± 2-lipped. Petals pink; upper pair . 2.8-3 x c. 1.2 cm, narrow obovate; lower 3 c. 3.7-4 x c. 1.6 cm, ± oblanceolate, with dark crimson marking on the veins in lower parts. Filaments pale pink; anthers reddish. Stigmas purple. A number of large clumps on this warm, dry, west-facing slope.