- Taxon
- Gallery
- ≡ Gingidium haastii F.Muell., Edinburgh New Philos. J. 14: 158 (1861)
- ≡ Ligusticum haastii (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Hook.f. in Hooker, Handb. New Zealand Fl. 95 (1864)
Stems rather stout, 3–6 dm. tall, grooved; stock c. 2–3 cm. diam. Lvs on stout petioles 8–12 cm. long, including sheath narrowed to apex and shortly liguled. Lamina about ovate-oblong, 15–25 × 6–12 cm., 2–3–(4)-pinnate. Primary pinnae 8–12 pairs, 4–8 × 2–3 cm., about obovate, cuneately narrowed to base. Secondary pinnae ± 2–(5) × 0·5–1cm., again pinnate or very deeply cut into linear lobes up to c. 15 × 1–2 mm., with flexuous hair-processes (1)–2–3–(4) mm. long. Stem-bracts or -lvs with sheaths ± 4 × 2 cm. tipped by lamina up to c. 6 cm. long. Umbels us. many, subpaniculately arranged, ± 5–8 cm. diam. Primary rays stout, c. 4–5 cm. long; involucral bracts linear to filiform, hair-tipped. Secondary rays ± 1–2 cm. long; involucral bracts similar, shorter. ♂ with caryx-lobes acute, ± 2 mm. long; ♀ with shorter blunter lobes; petals white, ± 3 mm. long. Fr. (4)–5–(6) mm. long, narrow-ovoid. Mericarps 5–(4)-ribbed and winged. Styles slender, 2–3 mm. long; stylopodia prominent.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Flowering: Oct.–Feb.; Fruiting: Dec.–Mar.