Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-39.927261 175.067323
Verbatim locality:
Whanganui, Bastia Hill, 115 Mount View Road
Verbatim collector:
C.C. Ogle 6974, K. Wrigglesworth, R.C. Ogle
Standardised collector:
Colin C. Ogle; K. Wrigglesworth; Robyn C. Ogle
Verbatim date:
8 Nov 2021
Start date:
2021-11-08
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Native lands:
Whanganui Iwi / Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi
Whanganui Land Settlement (Lower Whanganui)
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
39°55´38.46“ S 175°4´4.52“ E (WGS84 -39.92735 175.067922)
Abundance:
One seen
Altitudes:
from 90m
Habitat:
Inside abandoned and decrepit glass house. In plastic pot on old potting bed, but rooted through - very dry - most plants in this glasshouse and dehydrated and dead.
Flower.
Spindly shrub reaching roof of glasshouse 3 - 4 m tall, presumably abandoned in pot, now gone and shrub taken root in dry planting bed. Flowers large for a Melaleuca with 5 bundles of scarlet stamens. Leaves opposite, slightly concave on upper surfaces. Matte green; oil glands evident on undersides. Sparse marginal hairs on young leaves.