Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Azorella Lam.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella robusta (Kirk) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas, Brittonia 69: epublished (2016)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Aralia lyallii var. robusta Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 23: 429-430 (1891)
  • ≡ Stilbocarpa robusta (Kirk) Cockayne, Subantarctic Is. N. Z. 209 (1909)
  • ≡ Kirkophytum robustum (Kirk) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 431 (1961)
  • = Stilbocarpa bollonsii Cockayne ex Watson, The Gardeners' Chronicle 45, no. 1149 (1909) nom. nud.
 Description

Tufted herb up to c. 1 m. tall, lacking stolons. Lvs on pith-filled stout petioles up to 2 dm. × 1 cm., grooved, nearly glab. except at junction with lamina; sheath expanded above into foliaceous ligule. Lamina coriac., bright green above, paler below; ± reniform, with deep and broad sinus; almost glab. above, nearly so below or scabridulous; 20–30–(60) (from sinus) × 30–40–(60) cm.; margins irregularly, rather shallowly lobed, lobes again lobulate; lobules rounded-triangular, strongly mucronate to awned. Peduncles stout, up to ± 15–50 cm. long. Primary rays c. 5, very stout, up to c. 10 cm. long; bracts foliaceous, on petioles c. 5 cm. long, lamina us. deeply 3-lobed. Secondary rays up to c. 15 mm. long. Umbels congested; fls small, pale yellow.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Kirkophytum robustum (Kirk) Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Chilton, C. (ed.) 1909: The subantarctic islands of New Zealand : reports on the geo-physics, geology, zoology, and botany of the islands lying to the south of New Zealand, based mainly on observations and collections made during an expedition in the government steamer "Hinemoa" (Captain J. Bollons) in November, 1907. Vol. 2. Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, Government Printer, Christchurch.
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 Stilbocarpa robusta (Kirk) Cockayne]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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 Stilbocarpa robusta (Kirk) Cockayne] [Naturally Uncommon]
Kirk, T. 1891 (May 1891): On the Botany of the Snares. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 23: 426–431.
Philipson, W.R.A. 1965: The New Zealand genera of the Araliaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 3: 333–341. [as Kirkophytum robustum (Kirk) Allan; Stilbocarpa robusta (Kirk) Cockayne]
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]
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