Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Gingidia J.W.Dawson
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Gingidia trifoliolata (Hook.f.) J.W.Dawson, Kew Bull. 29 (1974)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Angelica trifoliolata (Hook.f.) Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 31: 31 (1899)
  • ≡ Gingidium trifoliatum (Hook.f.) J.W.Dawson, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 33: 6 (1961)
  • ≡ Ligusticum trifoliatum Hook.f.
  • = Anisotome enysii var. tennysonianum Laing, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 49 (1926 [1927])
 Description

Often rhizomatous, rhizomes terminating in clusters of leaves; not invested with remains of dead leaves at base. Leaves once to twice pinnate or ternate-pinnate, sub-fleshy to membranous, 7-18 cm long 3.5-7 cm broad; primary leaflets 1-4 pairs; leaflet laminae 8-18 mm long, 8-14 mm broad, flabellate to rhomboid, simple, sometimes incised, glaucous beneath, stomata restricted to the lower surfaces, margins obtuse dentate to crenate; proximal primary leaflets sometimes with short, but more commonly with long petiolules; primary rachis intervals often extended; petioles up to 11 cm long, 1-2 mm in diameter; sheaths 7-12 mm long, 3-4 mm broad at the base. Inflorescences 10-30 cm long with axes 1-1.5 mm in diameter; compound umbels 1-3 per inflorescence; simple umbels 2-5 per compound umbel; bracts free or partly fused; flowers 3-11 per simple umbel; styles ca. 2 mm long; mericarps of fruits ca. 8 mm long, 3 mm wide, the 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
Cockayne, L. 1899: On Ligusticum trifoliatum Hook.f. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 31: 424–426.
Cockayne, L.; Allan, H.H. 1927 ("1926"): Notes on New Zealand floristic botany, including descriptions of new species, & c. (No. 5). Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 57: 48–72.
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. 1961: A revision of the genus Anisotome (Umbelliferae). University of California Publications in Botany 33: 1–98.
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.; 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. [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.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]