Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Anisotome Hook.f.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Anisotome aromatica var. incisa (Kirk) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 680 (1925)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Ligusticum incisum Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 204 (1899)
 Description

Stems stout to rather slender, striate, up to c. 5 dm. tall; lamina narrow-oblong in outline, up to ± 20 cm. long, on petiole up to ± 10 cm. long; pinnae 5–10 pairs, flabellate to rhomboid in outline, distant, submembr., on petiolules up to ± 5 mm. long, or subsessile. Lamina of pinnae ± 20 × 25 mm., very deeply irregularly 3–(5)-lobed; lobes again deeply divided; final segs about oblong, rather abruptly narrowed to stiff hair-process. Umbel-bearing portion of stem very slender; bracts up to ± 2 cm. long, including delicate sheath and small lamina. Umbels compound, on slender peduncles up to c. 8 cm. long. Primary rays unequal, 5–10, very slender, up to 3 cm. long; involucral bracts few, filiform, secondary rays very short, up to 15. Umbellules c. 5–10 mm. diam. in fl.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.