Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Chaerophyllum L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chaerophyllum colensoi var. multifidum (Allan) K.F.Chung, Syst. Bot. 32: 678 (2007)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Oreomyrrhis colensoi var. multifida Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 461 (1961)
 Description

Lvs up to c. 15 cm. long, including slender petioles up to ± 5 cm. long. Lflts in rather distant pairs, up to ± 15 mm. long, including capillary petiolules; lower segs cut to costa, upper pinnatisect; segs up to ± 5 mm. long, lanceolate, us. apiculate. Umbels on rather stout peduncles up to c. 20 cm. long; rays ± 10, up to ± 2 cm. long. Fr. up to c. 5 mm. long, pubescent in grooves.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Oreomyrrhis colensoi var. multifida Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Chung, K-F. 2007: Inclusion of the South Pacific alpine genus Oreomyrrhis (Apiaceae) in Chaerophyllum based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 32(3): 671–681.