Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Anisotome Hook.f.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Anisotome filifolia (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Laing (1911)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Ligusticum filifolium Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 95 (1864)
  • ≡ Gingidium filifolium (Hook.f.) J.W.Dawson (1961)
  • ≡ Gingidia filifolium (Hook.f.) J.W.Dawson
 Description

Slender herb up to ± 3 dm. or more tall, from stout stock; stems grooved, stiff, slender, branched above. Lvs on slender petioles up to c. 2 dm. long, us. shorter; sheaths broad, membr., up to ± 2 cm., long. shortly obtusely liguled. Lamina (5)–10–(40) × 5–10 mm.; pinnae 3–6 pairs, spreading, ternately divided into filiform or very narrow-linear acute segs, us. apiculate, up to c. 4 cm. long. Umbels several to few, compound, on slender peduncles up to ± 8c m. long. Bracts foliaceous. Primary rays very slender, unequal, ± 2–5 cm. long; involucral bracts few, short, linear. Umbellules ± 5 mm. diam.; fls small. Fr. 8–9 mm. long, narrow-oblong in outline, compressed. Mericarps thin, 5-winged, lateral wings distinctly > dorsal.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Jan.; Fruiting: Jan.–Feb.

 Bibliography
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. [Not Threatened]
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. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.