Ara Metua, between Tupapa and Matavera, Arai Te Tonga
Verbatim locality:
Ara Metua, between Tupapa and Matavera, Arai Te Tonga
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4990/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
21 Jul 2000
Start date:
2000-07-21
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Rarotonga
Habitat:
Roadside hedge, cultivated.
Notes:
Arborescent plant with trunk c. 1 m high. Leaves clustered at top, uniformly deep green and ± undulate. Inflorescence terminal. Flowers in dense sessile or pedunculate heads, very fragrant. Perianth 1.5-1.7 cm long, narrow cylindric, white inside, strongly brown-veined outside; lobes spreading at anthesis and are ⅔ - ¾ length of tube, linear. Stamens and style white, = length; stigma capitate.