Azorella roughii (Hook.f.) Kirk

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Name scientific

Azorella roughii (Hook.f.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 192 (1899)

Preferred name

Azorella roughii (Hook.f.) Kirk

Taxonomy reference

Plunkett, G.M; Nicolas, A.N. 2017: Assessing Azorella (Apiaceae) and its allies: Phylogenetics and a new classification. Brittonia 69(1): 31–61. [First Online: 15 September 2016]

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f.) Kirk

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination authors

Kirk

Publication place

Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.

Year published

1899

Publication page

192

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pozoa roughii Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Azorella roughii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Apiales

Family

Umbelliferae

Genus

Azorella

Species

roughii

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Schizeilema roughii (Hook.f.) Domin

Description

Glab. herb with creeping stems and branches rooting at nodes; final branches sts ascending. Lvs tufted at nodes, on rather stout petioles 5-10-15 cm. long; stipules ± laciniate. Lamina coriac., (1)-2-(4) cm. diam., orbicular-reniform, deeply 3-5-partite or rarely 3-5- foliolate. Lflts or divisions sessile, broad-obcuneate, crenately 3-5-lobed towards apex. Peduncles (2)-5-(15) cm. long. Umbels (5)-10-15-(20)-fld, sts with 1-3 accessory umbellules on filiform pedicels up to 4 cm. long. Involucral bracts linear to narrow-oblong to lanceolate. Fr. ± 2 mm. long, tetragonous, on short slender pedicels. Mericarps distinctly 5-ribbed.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.