Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Azorella Lam.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Azorella roughii (Hook.f.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 192 (1899)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Pozoa roughii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 89 (1864)
  • ≡ Schizeilema roughii (Hook.f.) Domin, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 581 (1908)
 Description

Glab. herb with creeping stems and branches rooting at nodes; final branches sts ascending. Lvs tufted at nodes, on rather stout petioles 5–10–15 cm. long; stipules ± laciniate. Lamina coriac., (1)–2–(4) cm. diam., orbicular-reniform, deeply 3–5-partite or rarely 3–5- foliolate. Lflts or divisions sessile, broad-obcuneate, crenately 3–5-lobed towards apex. Peduncles (2)–5–(15) cm. long. Umbels (5)–10–15–(20)-fld, sts with 1–3 accessory umbellules on filiform pedicels up to 4 cm. long. Involucral bracts linear to narrow-oblong to lanceolate. Fr. ± 2 mm. long, tetragonous, on short slender pedicels. Mericarps distinctly 5-ribbed.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Fruiting: Dec.–Jan.

 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 roughii (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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