- Taxon
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- ≡ Panax edgerleyi Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 94 (1853)
- ≡ Pseudopanax edgerleyi (Hook.f.) K.Koch, Wochenschr. Gärtnerei Pflanzenk. 2: 366 (1859)
- ≡ Nothopanax edgerleyi (Hook.f.) Harms, Value cannot be null. Parameter name: s 48 (1894)
Tree up to 10 m. or more tall, with trunk up to c. 4 dm. diam. Lvs aromatic, green and shining above, paler below, membr. to subcoriac. Juveniles with 3–5-foliolate lvs, terminal lflt subsessile to shortly stalked, 5–15 × 1·5–3·5 cm.; all lflts linear-oblong, acuminate to acute, deeply lobed. Older plants mainly 3-foliolate; terminal lflts subsessile to shortly stalked, 10–15 × 2.5–3·5 cm.; all lflts shallowly lobed to sinuate-serrate to entire, acuminate to obtuse. Adult plants with predominately unifoliolate lvs; lamina 7–15 × 3–5 cm., obovate-cuneate to elliptic-oblong, acuminate to obtuse, entire to sinuate; veins evident; petioles 1·5–5 cm. long. Umbels small, 10–15-fld, axillary, paniculately arranged. Fls greenish; ovary 3–4-loculed, style-branches 3–4, connate at base. Fr. c. 3–4 cm. diam., globose; seeds 3–4.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Pseudopanax edgerleyi (Hook.f.) K.Koch]