Chaerophyllum ramosum (Hook.f.) K.F.Chung

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Name scientific

Chaerophyllum ramosum (Hook.f.) K.F.Chung, Syst. Bot. 32: 679 (2007)

Preferred name

Chaerophyllum ramosum (Hook.f.) K.F.Chung

Taxonomy reference

Chung, K-F. 2007: Inclusion of the South Pacific alpine genus Oreomyrrhis (Apiaceae) in Chaerophyllum based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 32(3): 671–681.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

K.F.Chung

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

(Hook.f.) K.F.Chung

Publication place

Chung, K-F. 2007: Inclusion of the South Pacific alpine genus Oreomyrrhis (Apiaceae) in Chaerophyllum based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 32(3): 671–681.

Year published

2007

Publication page

679

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Oreomyrrhis ramosa Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Chaerophyllum ramosum

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Apiales

Family

Umbelliferae

Genus

Chaerophyllum

Species

ramosum

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Oreomyrrhis ramosa Hook.f.

Description

Lax perennial herb with much-branched slender spreading stems up to c. 6 dm. long. Lvs pinnate to 2-pinnate, on slender petioles up to c. 15 cm. long. Lamina ovate-oblong in outline; lflts in few pairs, on very slender petiolules up to 15 mm. long; lflts of basal lvs up to 15 × 20 mm., us. less, coarsely apiculately toothed, cuneately narrowed to base; pinnules of cauline lvs and often of basal ones ± 10 × 5 mm., very membr., on filiform petiolules 2-5 mm. long, pinnatifid to pinnatisect; segs linear to narrow-lanceolate, ± apiculate. Umbels on very slender peduncles up to ± 25 cm. long. Involucral bracts several, linear to linear-lanceolate, apiculate, up to c. 5 mm. long. Rays 10-15, unequal, very slender, up to c. 2 cm. long. Fr. glab. to pubescent, linear or very slightly widened towards base, ± 5-6 mm. long, strongly ribbed.

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