Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Azorella Lam.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella nitens Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 25: 270 (1892 [1893])
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Schizeilema nitens (Petrie) Domin, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 579 (1908)
 Description

Glab. herb with filiform branching and interlacing stems (often subterranean), forming small patches. Lvs few, on filiform petioles up to c. 5 cm. long, slightly thickened towards lamina. Lamina 3–(2)-partite to base, or 3–2-foliolate, up to c. 7 mm. diam.; 1flts us. sessile, narrowly obovate-cuneate, obtuse or acute, (2)–3–4–(5) × 1–2–(3) mm.; entire, or occ. rather obscurely 2–3-toothed, glossy; margins slightly thickened and recurved. Peduncles us. > petioles, up to c. 2 cm. long, with narrow ovate-oblong bracts near middle. Umbels (1)–2–3–5)-fld, occ. with minute secondary umbels; involucral bracts linear to narrow-oblong, acute to subacute. Fr. < 2 mm. long, tetragonous, turgid, = pedicel length. Mericarps indistinctly 5-ribbed, rounded on dorsal edge, turgid.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Schizeilema nitens (Petrie) Domin]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 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. [Not Threatened]
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 nitens (Petrie) Domin] [Not Threatened]
Domin, K. 1908: Uber eine neue austral-antarktische Umbelliferen-Gattung. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 40: 573–575.
Petrie, D. 1893 ("1892"): Description of a New Genus and of New Species of Native Plants, etc. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 25: 269–275.
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]