Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Araliaceae
Genus
Pseudopanax K.Koch
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pseudopanax colensoi (Hook.f.) Philipson, New Zealand J. Bot. 3: 338 (1965) var. colensoi
Synonymy:
  • = Neopanax colensoi (Hook.f.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 434 (1961) var. colensoi
  • = Panax colensoi var. montanus Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 218 (1899) – as montanum
  • ≡ Neopanax colensoi var. montanus (Kirk) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 435 (1961) – as montanum
 Description

Spreading shrub with lvs seldom > 5 cm. long; lflts 3, subcoriac.; umbels smaller; primary rays 3–4; fls smaller, ♀ with minute blunt teeth.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Neopanax colensoi var. montanus (Kirk) Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 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. [Not Threatened]
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Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
Philipson, W.R.A. 1965: The New Zealand genera of the Araliaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 3: 333–341.
Seemann, B. 1866: Revision of the natural order Hederaceae. XIII. On the genus Raukana. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 4
Wardle, P. 1968: The taxonomy and distribution of the stipulate species of Pseudopanax in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 6: 226–236.