Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Eryngium L., Sp. Pl. 232-233 (1753)
Vernacular Name(s):
Eryngo; Sea holly
 Description

Glabrous annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Lvs simple, entire, pinnate or palmately lobed, usually spinous. Fls sessile in capitula, these solitary or in cymes or racemes; bracts in one or more series subtending the head, usually spinous; bracteoles subtending fls usually spinous, entire or 3-fid. Petals white to purple or greenish, regular, variously lobed or fringed, inflexed; calyx teeth evident, usually acute, rarely spinescent, > petals. Fr. ovoid to subglobose, scarcely flattened laterally, variously covered with scales, spines or tubercles; commissure broad; ribs obscure; vittae usually solitary.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Eryngium L.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Exotic: Fully Naturalised2
Exotic: Casual3
Total6
 Bibliography
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.