Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Actinotus Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Actinotus novae-zelandiae (Petrie) Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 13: 324 (1881)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Hemiphues novae-zealandiae Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 12: 355 (1880)
  • ≡ Hemiphues suffocata var. novae-zelandiae (Petrie) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 452 (1961)
 Description

Low herb with creeping branching stems, rooting at all or most nodes, forming rather compact patches up to ± 3 dm. diam.: branches ± clad in soft patent hairs. Lvs entire, coriac., subfleshy. Lamina narrow-oblong to narrow-spathulate; glab. or with a pencil of ± fulvous hairs towards apex and scattered hairs on margins; (2)–3–4–5 × 1–3 mm., margins thickened, ± recurved; petiole membr., sheathing, ± 5 mm. long, margined by long hairs. Peduncle up to c. 2 cm. long, clad in soft patent hairs. Involucral bracts us. 5, obovate-oblong to broad-ovate, obtuse, c. 1·5 mm. long, hairy at base of ventral surface. Umbel 4–5-fld; fls subsessile, calyx-limb obsolete, petals 0, stylopodium stout. Mericarp brown, c. 1 mm. long, obscurely ribbed.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Hemiphues suffocata var. novae-zelandiae]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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]
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Petrie, D. 1881: A visit to Stewart Island, with Notes on its Flora. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 13: 323–332.
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