Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Gingidia J.W.Dawson
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Gingidia decipiens (Hook.f.) J.W.Dawson, Kew Bull. 29: 476 (1974)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Angelica decipiens Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 98 (1864)
  • ≡ Aciphylla decipiens (Hook.f.) Benth. & Hook.f. (1867)
  • ≡ Ligusticum decipiens (Hook.f.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 205 (1899)
  • = Ligusticum petraeaum Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 51: 92 (1919)
  • ≡ Anisotome petraea (Cheeseman) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 679-680 (1925)
  • = Gingidium decipiens (Hook.f.) J.W.Dawson (1961)
 Description

Often invested with remains of dead leaves at base; not rhizomatous. Leaves once-pinnate, rarely 2-pinnate, sub-fleshy, 4-12 (18) cm long, 0.5-4 cm broad; leaflets 5-10 pairs, each (4) 8-17 (24) mm long, 3-16 mm broad, sessile or shortly petioled, occasionally with petiolules up to 5 mm long simple or more frequently pinnatifid or pinnate with one or two pairs of segments, the segments usually not overlapping, with a glaucous bloom on one or both surfaces or not glaucous, stomata equally abundant on both surfaces; petioles 1-4 (8) cm long, 0.75-1.5 mm in diameter; sheaths 6-11 (20) mm long, 3-4.5 (7) mm broad at the base. Inflorescences 8-20 cm long with axes 0.75-2 mm in diameter; compound umbels 1-3 per inflorescence; simple umbels 5-10 per compound umbel; bracts free; flowers 8-15 per simple umbel; styles 1.5-3 mm long; mericarps of fruits ca. 4 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, lateral ribs produced into wings.

[Reproduced from Dawson (1967, New Zealand J. Bot. 5: 84-116) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
Dawson, J.W. 1967: The New Zealand species of Gingidium (Umbelliferae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 5: 84–116.
Dawson, J.W. 1974: Validation of Gingidia (Umbelliferae). Kew Bulletin 29: 476–476.
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]
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