Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Azorella Lam.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella haastii (Hook.f.) Drude in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 192 (1897)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Pozoa haastii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 88 (1864)
  • ≡ Schizeilema haastii (Hook.f.) Domin, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 582 (1908)
  • = Pozoa elegans Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 23: 386 (1890 [1891])
  • ≡ Schizeilema elegans (Colenso) M.Hiroe, Umbelliferae World 265 (1979) pro parte
  • = Azorella elegans Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 23: 386 (1891)
  • = Schizeilema haastii subsp. hookerianum Domin, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 583 (1908) nom. illeg.
 Description

Glab. herb with lvs tufted at nodes of rhizomes, often emitting stolons bearing offset plants. Lvs on stout petioles (2)–3–7·5–(15) cm. or even longer, expanded and sheathing at base. Lamina glab. to strigose, (5)–25–(40) mm. diam., reniform to suborbicular, subcoriac. to fleshy, shallowly rather coarsely crenate; margins ± thickened; sinus narrow to open, or base cordate. Stipules ciliate, sts laciniate, to fimbriate. Umbels often compound, on peduncles up to c. 15 mm. long, up to ± 15 mm. diam.; rays us. ∞.Involucral bracts linear-oblong, up to c. 5mm. long or ± foliaceous at base of main umbel. Fls (3)-(20)–50, crowded. Fr. tetragonous, ± 2 mm. long on pedicels up to c. 6·5 mm. long. Mericarps obscurely to distinctly 5-ribbed.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Schizeilema haastii (Hook.f.) Domin]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Azorella haastii (Hook.f.) Drude
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Phenology

Flowering: Dec.–Feb.; Fruiting: Jan.–Mar.

 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1891: A Description of some newly discovered indigenous plants, being a further contribution towards making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 23: 381–391.
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. [as Schizeilema haastii (Hook.f.) Domin var. haastii] [Not Threatened]
Domin, K. 1908: Uber eine neue austral-antarktische Umbelliferen-Gattung. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 40: 573–575.
Hiroe, M. 1979: Umbelliferae of World. Tokyo, Ariake Book Company.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien.
Plunkett, G.M; Nicolas, A.N. 2017: Assessing Azorella (Apiaceae) and its allies: Phylogenetics and a new classification. Brittonia 69(1): 31–61. [First Online: 15 September 2016]