Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Lignocarpa J.W.Dawson
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lignocarpa carnosula (Hook.f.) J.W.Dawson, New Zealand J. Bot. 5: 405 (1967)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Ligusticum carnosulum Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 95 (1864)
  • ≡ Anisotome carnosula (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Laing, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 43: 366 (1911)
 Description

Small herb hardly up to 15 cm. tall, everywhere thick and fleshy; aerial parts sprawling, dark slate- to blue-grey. Taproot stout, long, much-branched. Lvs few to many, on petioles 2–4–(5) cm. long; sheaths short, broad. Lamina ± 5–(8) × 4–(5) cm., 2–3 times ternately divided; final segs up to c. 2 cm. long, very narrow-linear, subterete, subacute to obtuse. Umbels solitary, compound, up to 5–(10) cm. diam., on stout peduncles up to c. 2 cm. long. Involucral bracts (4)–5–(6), lflike, ternately divided, surpassing umbel, segs to 2 cm. long. Primary rays ± 10, stout, almost woody, ribbed, ± 2–3 cm. long. Secondary rays ± 10, stout, ribbed ± 3 mm. long. ♂ and ♀ in same umbel; petals white, 2–3 mm. long strongly incurved. Carpophores slender, ± 5 mm. long. Fr.(3)–5–(6) × 2–3 mm., oblong in outline; mericarps with 5 broad, rounded ribs; commissural face ± rounded. Vittae 1 per furrow, 2 on commissural face. Styles rather stout, up to c. 5 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Anisotome carnosula]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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Dawson, J.W. 1967: New Zealand Umbelliferae. Lignocarpa gen. nov. and Scandia gen. nov. New Zealand Journal of Botany 5: 400–417.
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