Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Araliaceae
Genus
Raukaua Seem.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raukaua simplex (G.Forst.) A.D.Mitch., Frodin & Heads, New Zealand J. Bot. 35: 313 (1997)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Panax simplex G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr. 75 (1786)
  • ≡ Pseudopanax simplex (G.Forst.) K.Koch, Wochenschr. Gärtnerei Pflanzenk. 2: 366 (1859)
  • ≡ Nothopanax simplex (G.Forst.) Seem., J. Bot. 4: 352 (1866)
  • ≡ Neopanax simplex (G.Forst.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 433 (1961)
  • ≡ Pseudopanax simplex (G.Forst.) Philipson, New Zealand J. Bot. 3: 338 (1965) nom. illeg.
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 8 m. tall, much-branched, all parts glab. Seedlings with simple ovate serrate lvs passing quickly into stage (a), succeeded by stage (b) or directly by adult stage, rarely remaining simple-lvd to adult stage. Juveniles of stage (a) with lvs 3–5-foliolate, lflts 4–15 cm. long, narrow linear-oblong to elliptic, deeply lobed to pinnatifid, lobes acute to obtuse; petioles up to 10 cm. long. Juveniles of stage (b) with lvs 3–5-foliolate, lflts 5–8 cm. long, elliptic to obovate-oblong, to lanceolate, acute or obtuse, sharply to bluntly serrate, on petioles up to 6 cm. long; sts flowering at this stage. Adults with unifoliolate lvs, with or without some trifoliolate lvs; lamina lanceolate to broad-lanceolate, to elliptic, to ovate-elliptic, to obovate-oblong, sharply serrate, acuminate to acute or obtuse, coriac., 5–10 cm. or more long, on petioles 3–8 cm. long. Umbels axillary and terminal on peduncles c. 2–3 cm. long, compound with 3 or more umbellules each 5–15-fld; terminal umbellule us. completely pistillate, lateral wholly or partly staminate. Fls small, greenish; calyx minutely 5-toothed. Ovary 2-loculed, 2-ovuled, style-branches 2, recurved; fr. c. 3–4 mm. diam., compressed.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Neopanax simplex (G.Forst.) Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Raukaua simplex (G.Forst.) A.D.Mitch., Frodin & Heads
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
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