Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Azorella Lam.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella pallida (Kirk) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 193 (1899)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Pozoa pallida Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 10: 419 (1877 [1878])
  • ≡ Schizeilema pallidum (Kirk) Domin, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 580 (1908)
 Description

Glab. herb with slender stems and branches, us. arching and rooting at nodes, forming open patches up to ± 2 dm. diam. Lvs us. crowded at nodes, on slender petioles up to ± 5 cm. long; stipules laciniate. Lamina 3-foliolate to deeply 3-partite, membr., pale green, glossy, up to c. 2 cm. diam. Lflts obovate-cuneate, with 3–6 rounded lobes. Peduncles us. not > ± 5 mm. long. Umbels simple (occ. the infl. axis may bear up to 4 umbels at intervals), 4–12-fld, or occ. with 2–3 long-pedicelled secondary umbels from base of primary; secondary umbels sts again umbellulate. Involucral bracts linear to narrow-lanceolate, acute or obtuse. Occ. a pedicel replaced by small 1f. Fr. ± ovoid, bluntly 4-angled, c 2 mm. long, on filiform pedicels up to ± 5 mm. long. Mericarps rather obscurely 5-ribbed.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Schizeilema pallidum (Kirk) Domin]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

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

 Bibliography
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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. [as Schizeilema pallidum (Kirk) Domin]
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