Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Azorella Lam.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella lyallii (Armstr.) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas, Fl. New Zealand 1, epublished (2016)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Stilbocarpa lyallii J.B.Armstr., Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 13: 336 (1880 [1881])
  • ≡ Kirkophytum lyallii (J.B.Armstr.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 431 (1961)
  • = Aralia lyallii (Armstr.) Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 17: 222 (1885)
 Description

Monoec. or polygamous herb with stout arcuate or prostrate stolons. Stems short, c. 1–1·5 cm. diam., ± pilose. Lvs on subterete, fistular, ± pilose-pubescent petioles; sheath membr., amplexicaul, produced into ligule margined by hairs. Lamina suborbicular-reniform, up to 30 cm. or more wide, shallowly lobed, crenate-serrate with teeth mucronate or shortly awned; glab. or nearly so above, ± pilose below; veins prominent above and below, flabellate. Umbels compound, bracts foliaceous, bractlets linear. Calyx truncate; petals 5, about linear-oblong, reddish purple; stamens 5. Ovary 2-loculed, style-branches 2. Fr. black, shining, globose, c. 3·5 mm. diam.; disk with prominent stylopodia; seeds 1 per locule, ovoid.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Kirkophytum lyallii (J.B.Armstr.) Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Armstrong, J.B. 1881: Descriptions of new and rare New Zealand plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 13: 335–343.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [as Stilbocarpa lyallii J.B.Armstr.] [Recovering]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76. [as Stilbocarpa lyallii J.B.Armstr.]
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. [Recovering]
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 Stilbocarpa lyallii J.B.Armstr.] [Recovering]
Kirk, T. 1885 ("1884"): On the Flowering Plants of Stewart Island. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 17: 213–228.
Philipson, W.R.A. 1965: The New Zealand genera of the Araliaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 3: 333–341. [as Kirkophytum lyallii (J.B.Armstr.) Allan; Stilbocarpa lyallii J.B.Armstr.]
Plunkett, G.M; Nicolas, A.N. 2017: Assessing Azorella (Apiaceae) and its allies: Phylogenetics and a new classification. Brittonia 69(1): 31–61. [First Online: 15 September 2016]