Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Anisotome Hook.f.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Anisotome aromatica var. flabellifolia (G.Simpson) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 491 (1961)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Anisotome flabellifolia G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 79: 423 (1952)
 Description

Stems very slender, flexible, finely striate, up to c. 5 dm. long; lamina narrow-oblong, up to 2 dm. long, on petiole up to c. 7 cm. long; pinnae (5)–10–(20) pairs, distant, up to ± 10 × 8 mm., rather abruptly cuneately narrowed to sessile or subsessile base, membr.; teeth sharp, fine, with short hair-process. Occ. pinnae deeply, irregularly lobed. Umbels small, compound, on slender peduncles up to c. 4 cm. long; primary rays almost filiform unequal, up to ± 3c m. long; involucral bracts narrow-linear, acuminate; secondary rays very short; umbellules not > 5 mm. diam. in fl.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Simpson, G. 1952: Notes on some New Zealand plants and descriptions of new species (No. 5). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 79: 419–435.