Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Azorella Lam.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella exigua (Hook.f.) Drude in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 132 (1897)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Azorella exigua (Hook.f.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 191 (1899) nom. illeg.
  • ≡ Schizeilema exiguum (Hook.f.) Domin, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 585 (1908)
 Description

Minute plant with stout, very sparingly branched to unbranched rhizomes up to c. 2 cm. long, forming patches up to c. 5 cm. diam. Lvs crowded, on rather stout petioles up to ± 1 cm. long. Lamina 2–4–(5) mm. diam., suborbicular to broad-ovate, truncate to subcordate at base, coriac., entire to very obscurely 3–5-lobed or crenulate; margins slightly recurved. Stipules obsolescent. Umbels on rather stout peduncles < 1 cm. long; involucral bracts linear-oblong. Fls minute, 3–8 per umbel; calyx-teeth minute, unequal, acute. Fr. subtetragonous, 2–2.5 mm. long; mericarps obscurely 5-ribbed, rounded on dorsal margin.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Schizeilema exiguum (Hook.f.) Domin]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Feb.; Fruiting: Nov.–Feb.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Naturally Uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [as Schizeilema exiguum (Hook.f.) Domin] [Naturally Uncommon]
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Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
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