Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Anisotome Hook.f.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Anisotome imbricata (Hook.f.) Cockayne, Veg. N.Z. 226 (1921)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Ligusticum imbricatum Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 97 (1864)
 Description

Compact herb up to ± 5 cm. tall, sts forming rather large patches by offset plants; lamina ± prostrate, 1–2–(4) cm. long, on petiole up to ± 5 mm. long, with broad membr. sheath up to 10 mm. long, produced into a short blunt ligule; pinnae 4–8 very close-set overlapping pairs, sessile, ± 2 mm. long, us. imbricate, 3–6-lobed or toothed, segs linear, hair-process ± 2 mm. long. Peduncle 2–4–(8) cm. long, ± decumbent. Umbels simple or compound, ± hidden among lvs; rays short; involucral bracts linear. Fr. broad-ovoid, c. 3–4 mm. long; mericarps distinctly 5-winged.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Anisotome imbricata (Hook.f.) Cockayne
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Phenology

Flowering: Dec.–Feb.; Fruiting: Jan.–Apr.

 Bibliography
Cockayne, L. 1921: The Vegetation of New Zealand - Die Vegetation der Erde XIV. Vol. 1. Leipzig.
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.