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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Anisotome antipoda Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, t.9,10 (1844)
Synonymy:
- = Calosciadium antipodum Endl. ex Walp., Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) 702 (1850)
- = Ligusticum antipodum Hombr. & Jacquinot ex Decne., Voy. Pôle Sud, Botanique, 2, 63 (1853)
Description
Very robust, up to ± 1 m. tall. stems deeply furrowed. stock very stout, taproot deeply descending. Lvs on petioles 15–20 × (0·5)–1–2 cm.; sheaths broad, up to 8 cm. long, tapering to petiole, shortly bluntly ligulate. Lamina rigid, coriac., about oblong to deltoid in outline, (10)–15–(25) × (6)–12–(16) cm. Primary pinnae 5–10 pairs, (3)–4–6–(10) × 3–(8) cm., rather distant, but often overlapping; secondary pinnae deeply cut into narrow segs ± 25 × 1·5–2 mm., the cartilaginous margins extended into pungent tips ± 1–2 mm. long Umbels us. many, on long peduncles, compound, ± 5 cm. diam.; involucral bracts linear. Calyx-lobes triangular, subacute; petals reddish mauve to white. Fr. ± 6·5 mm. long; mericarps unequal, us. one with 5, the other with 3–4 well-developed wings.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Oct.–Feb.; Fruiting: Mar.
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]
Decaisne, J. 1853: Botanique. Dumont D'Urville, J.S.C. (ed.) Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Oceanie, sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée: exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840. Vol. 2. Gide, Paris.
Hooker, J.D. 1844–1845: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. I. Flora Antarctica. Part I. Botany of Lord Auckland’s Group and Campbell’s Island. Reeve, Brothers, London.
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