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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Gingidia flabellata (Kirk) J.W.Dawson, Kew Bull. 29: 476 (1974)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Ligusticum flabellatum Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 205 (1899)
- ≡ Anisotome flabellata (Kirk) Cockayne ex Crosby-Sm., Trans. New Zealand Inst. 46: 228 (1914)
- = Aciphylla flabellata Cockayne, Rep. Bot. Surv. Stewart Island 59 (1909)
Vernacular Name(s):
Stewart Island aniseed
Description
Sometimes invested with remains of dead leaves at base; not rhizomatous. Leaves once-pinnate, fleshy. 4.5-5.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, leaflets 1-4 pairs, each 4.5-5 mm long, 4.5-7.5 mm broad, sessile or rarely with short petiolules, often irregular in shape but ranging from flabellate to reniform, simple never incised, without a glaucous bloom, stomata equally abundant on both surfaces, margins obtuse dentate or crenate to edentate, petioles 1-2 cm long, 0.75-1.5 mm in diameter, sheaths 7-12 mm long, 5-10 mm broad at the base. Inflorescences 2-6 cm long with axes 0.75-2.5 mm in diameter; compound umbels 1. occasionally 2 per inflorescence, simple umbels 2-7 per compound umbel, bracts free or partly fused; flowers up to 12 psr simple umbel, styles 1-1.5 mm long; mericarps of fruits ca. 2.5 mm long, 1 mm broad, lateral ribs not winged.
[Reproduced from Dawson (1967, New Zealand J. Bot. 5: 84-116) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cockayne, L. 1909: Report on a Botanical Survey of Stewart Island. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
Crosby, S. 1914: List of Phanerogamic Plants Indigenous in the Southland District. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 46: 220–246.
Dawson, J.W. 1967: The New Zealand species of Gingidium (Umbelliferae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 5: 84–116.
Dawson, J.W. 1974: Validation of Gingidia (Umbelliferae). Kew Bulletin 29: 476–476.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
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.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
