- Taxon
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- ≡ Panax ferox Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 10 (app.): App. xxxiv (1878)
Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, with slender trunk. Lvs of seedlings about linear-lanceolate, toothed; of unbranched juveniles narrow-linear, deflexed, up to c. 50 cm. long, very thick and coriac., with closely or distantly placed broad, rounded, us. hooked, lobes, c. 7·5–15 mm. wide at base; midribs very stout, raised, c. 2 mm. wide; lobes often crowded at lf-apex. Lvs at branching stage becoming shorter, ascending, often more sharply lobed, passing into those of adult stage. Lvs of adults c. 5–15 × 1–2 cm., oblong to linear-obovate, gradually narrowed to stout petiole c. 1–2 cm. long; obtuse or mucronate-apiculate to retuse, bluntly serrate to entire, veins evident above. Umbels terminal, compound; staminate with 5–12 rays c. 3–5 cm. long, with fls racemosely distributed; pistillate with rays 1–3 cm. long, umbellules 2–5-fld. Stamens 4–5, ovary 5-loculed, 5-ovuled; style-branches 5, connate, sts free at tips. Fr. broad-oblong in outline, c. 8–9 mm. diam.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Fruiting: Jan.–Apr.