Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Umbelliferae
Genus
Gingidia J.W.Dawson
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Gingidia montana (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) J.W.Dawson, Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 476 (1974)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Gingidium montanum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (1776)
  • = Ligusticum gingidium G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr. 22 (1786)
  • ≡ Anisotome gingidium (G.Forst.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 89 (1853)
  • ≡ Angelica gingidium (G.Forst.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 97 (1864)
  • ≡ Angelica montana (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Cockayne (1915)
Vernacular Name(s):
Koheriki; Maori anise; Native angelica; Naupiro
 Description

Often invested with remains of dead leaves at base; not rhizomatous. Leaves once pinnate, sub-fleshy, 15-40 (60) cm long, (3) 5-15 cm broad; leaflets 5-9 pairs, each 1.5-7.5 cm long, 1.5-6.5 cm broad, sessile, obliquely ovate-oblong to rhomboid, acute to obtuse, simple, rarely incised, glaucous beneath, stomata restricted to the lower surface, margins serrate, sometimes crenate; petioles 7-13 (30) cm long 2.5-6 mm in diameter; sheaths 3-7 (9.5) cm long, 7-20 mm broad at the base. Inflorescences 25-55 cm long with axes 3.5-7 mm in diameter; compound umbels 2-4 per inflorescence; simple umbels 5-25 per compound umbel; bracts free; flowers 15-30 per simple umbel; styles 1.5-3.5 mm long; mericarps of fruits 5-6 mm long, 2.5-3 mm broad, lateral ribs produced into wings.

[Reproduced from Dawson (1967, New Zealand J. Bot. 5: 84-116) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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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.; 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. [Not Threatened]
Forster, J.G.A. 1786: Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus. Dietrich, Göttingen.
Heenan, P.B.; Telford, R.H.; Bruhl, J.J. 2013: Three new species of Gingidia (Apiaceae: Apioideae) from Australia and New Zealand segregated from G. montana. Australian Systematic Botany 26: 196–209.
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