Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Araliaceae
Genus
Raukaua Seem.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raukaua simplex var. sinclairii (Hook.f.) A.D.Mitch., Frodin & Heads, New Zealand J. Bot. 35: 313 (1997)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Panax sinclairii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 103 (1864)
  • ≡ Nothopanax sinclairii (Hook.f.) Seem., J. Bot. 4: 296 (1866)
  • ≡ Neopanax simplex var. sinclairii (Hook.f.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 434 (1961)
  • ≡ Pseudopanax simplex var. sinclairii (Hook.f.) Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 11: 172 (1973)
 Description

Seedlings with simple broadly ovate to oblong serrate lvs, passing quickly into trifoliolate stage, remaining trifoliolate in the completely adult state; lflts elliptic to broad-lanceolate or obovate, acute, coarsely and sharply serrate. Fls and frs similar to .

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Neopanax simplex var. sinclairii (Hook.f.) Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Edgar, E. 1973: Names in Pseudopanax C. Kock (Araliaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 11: 171–172.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Mitchell, A.D.; Frodin, D. G.; Heads, M. J. 1997: Reinstatement of Raukaua, a genus of the Araliaceae centred in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 35(3): 309–315.
Seemann, B. 1866: Revision of the natural order Hederaceae. XIII. On the genus Raukana. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 4