Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, St Albans, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 21/14
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Collectors reference no.:
21/14
Verbatim date:
21 Sep 2014
Start date:
2014-09-21
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Cultivated in semi-shade.
Notes:
Herb with long pale green rhizomes, just below the surface. leaves with lamina dark green above and pale green below. Pedicels purple. Perianth 8-9 cm long, including the long, thread-like appendages to c. 6.5 cm long, dark maroon-purple, especially inside, except for a pair of large whitish broad elliptic patches on each of the 3 segments; basal part of perianth (i.e. below the spreading appendages) c. 1 cm across and remaining campanulate. Plant forming a large broad patch by the copious spreading rhizomes and now growing around and below shrubs in the area.