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Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella allanii (Cheeseman) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas, Brittonia 69: epublished (2016)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Schizeilema allanii Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 651 (1925)
Description
Glab. herb with creeping, branching stems, rooting at nodes, forming open patches up to ± 3 dm. diam. Lvs tufted at nodes on slender petioles 5–10–(15) cm. long. Lamina rather pale green, subcoriac., 2–4 cm. diam., deeply 3-partite to 3-foliolate. Lflts or divisions obcuneate, irregularly lobulate to crenulate towards apex; margins slightly thickened and recurved. Peduncles very slender, occ. branched, ± 10 cm. long. Umbels ± 15 mm. diam.; fls 8–12 on capillary unequal pedicels 5–10 mm. long. Involucral bracts linear, acute to acuminate. Fr. ± 2.5 mm. long, tetragonous, deeply furrowed at commissure. Mericarps distinctly to obscurely 5-ribbed.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Schizeilema allanii Cheeseman]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
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. [as Schizeilema allanii Cheeseman] [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. [as Schizeilema allanii Cheeseman]
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. [as Schizeilema allanii Cheeseman] [Naturally Uncommon]
Plunkett, G.M; Nicolas, A.N. 2017: Assessing Azorella (Apiaceae) and its allies: Phylogenetics and a new classification. Brittonia 69(1): 31–61. [First Online: 15 September 2016]
