Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Chaerophyllum L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chaerophyllum novae-zelandiae K.F.Chung, Syst. Bot. 32: 679 (2007)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Oreomyrrhis andicola var. rigida Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 198 (1899)
  • ≡ Oreomyrrhis rigida (Kirk) Allan ex Mathias & Constance (1955)
 Description

Stout tufted ± pubescent rather rigid herb up to c. 2 dm. tall. Main stems arising from short, stout, rather woody stock; branches short, spreading. Basal and cauline lvs similar, on petioles c. 3 cm. long, broadly sheathing at base. Lamina ± 5 cm. long, oblong in outline, pinnate or occ. 2-pinnate, ± pubescent. Lflts pinnatisect, up to ± 10 mm. long; segs linear-lanceolate, ± apiculate. Umbels on stout, rigid, us. spreading to depressed peduncles up to c. 2 dm. long; rays 10–15, slender to rather stout, unequal, up to c. 10 mm. long, ± clad in retrorse hairs. Involucral bracts narrow-oblong, ± pubescent, ± 2 × 1 mm. Fr. glab. or pubescent, 2.5–3·5 × 1–1·5 mm., linear to very narrow-ovate in outline.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Oreomyrrhis rigida (Kirk) Allan ex Mathias & Constance]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Chung, K-F. 2007: Inclusion of the South Pacific alpine genus Oreomyrrhis (Apiaceae) in Chaerophyllum based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 32(3): 671–681.
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]
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.