Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Araliaceae
Genus
Pseudopanax K.Koch
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pseudopanax gilliesii Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 221 (1899)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Panax lessonii var. heterophyllus Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 10 (app.): App. xxxv (1878) – as heterophylla
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, with slender branches. Lvs unifoliolate; lamina coriac., c. 4–8 cm. long, ovate, acute to acuminate, sharply serrate, on slender petioles up to 4 cm. long; occ. 3-foliolate or irregularly lobed lvs occur, with lflts c. 7–8 cm. long, lanceolate-cuneate. Umbels terminal; primary rays 3–6, c. 8 cm. long, fls racemosely arranged. Ovary 5-loculed, 5-ovuled; style-branches 5, connate, free at tips. Fr. subglobose, c. 6 mm. diam.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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]
Edgar, E. 1973: Names in Pseudopanax C. Kock (Araliaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 11: 171–172. [as Panax lessonii var. heterophyllus Kirk]
Kirk, T. 1878: An enumeration of recent additions to the New Zealand Flora, with critical and geographical notes. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 10 (app.): xlxviii–xlv.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.