Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Azorella Lam.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella hydrocotyloides (Hook.f.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 192 (1899)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Pozoa hydrocotyloides Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 88 (1864)
  • ≡ Schizeilema hydrocotyloides (Hook.f.) Domin, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 581 (1908)
 Description

Glab. herb with stout branching creeping stems rooting at nodes, forming small patches. Lvs in tufts at nodes on stout ± pilose petioles up to c. 4 cm. long; stipules narrow, entire, ± ciliolate. Lamina ± 5–10–15 mm. diam., reniform-orbicular, thick, coriac., 3–5-partite to middle or deeper; sinus narrow to cordate. Lflts obovate-cuneate, crenately 3–5-lobed; margins thickened, slightly recurved. Peduncles 1–4 together, ± 1 cm. long; umbels (3)–4–10–(15)-fld. Involucral bracts linear, obtuse. Fr. tetragonous, pale brown, us. > pedicel. Mericarps 5-ribbed.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Fruiting: Dec.–Feb.

 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. [as Schizeilema hydrocotyloides (Hook.f.) Domin] [Not Threatened]
Domin, K. 1908: Uber eine neue austral-antarktische Umbelliferen-Gattung. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 40: 573–575.
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.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
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