Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.718335 172.750225
Verbatim locality:
Kaituna Valley, below Herbert Peak, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury
Verbatim collector:
R. & E.F. Melville 5789
Standardised collector:
R. Melville; E. F. Melville
Verbatim date:
28.12.1961
Start date:
1961-12-28
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Altitudes:
from 457m
Habitat:
On rocks in river bed in Podocarp - broad leaf forest
Notes:
Plants 6-8 ins high, flowers pink.
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
Ex. Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew.
Ex. Herbario Kewensi
Flora of New Zealand
Collected during the tenure of a Senior Research Fellowship of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. N.Z.