Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Araliaceae
Genus
Pseudopanax K.Koch
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk, Forest. Fl. New Zealand 35, t. 23-26 (1889)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Panax ferox Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 10 (app.): App. xxxiv (1878)
Vernacular Name(s):
Fierce lancewood
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, with slender trunk. Lvs of seedlings about linear-lanceolate, toothed; of unbranched juveniles narrow-linear, deflexed, up to c. 50 cm. long, very thick and coriac., with closely or distantly placed broad, rounded, us. hooked, lobes, c. 7·5–15 mm. wide at base; midribs very stout, raised, c. 2 mm. wide; lobes often crowded at lf-apex. Lvs at branching stage becoming shorter, ascending, often more sharply lobed, passing into those of adult stage. Lvs of adults c. 5–15 × 1–2 cm., oblong to linear-obovate, gradually narrowed to stout petiole c. 1–2 cm. long; obtuse or mucronate-apiculate to retuse, bluntly serrate to entire, veins evident above. Umbels terminal, compound; staminate with 5–12 rays c. 3–5 cm. long, with fls racemosely distributed; pistillate with rays 1–3 cm. long, umbellules 2–5-fld. Stamens 4–5, ovary 5-loculed, 5-ovuled; style-branches 5, connate, sts free at tips. Fr. broad-oblong in outline, c. 8–9 mm. diam.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Fruiting: Jan.–Apr.

 Bibliography
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. [Naturally uncommon]
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.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Kirk, T. 1878: An enumeration of recent additions to the New Zealand Flora, with critical and geographical notes. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 10 (app.): xlxviii–xlv.
Kirk, T. 1889: The forest flora of New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.