Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

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Name scientific

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 213 (1906)

Preferred name

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Cheeseman

Original authors

Kirk

Authors

(Kirk) Cheeseman

Publication place

Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.

Year published

1906

Publication page

213

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Ligusticum politum Kirk

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Aciphylla polita

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Apiales

Family

Umbelliferae

Genus

Aciphylla

Species

polita

Synonyms

Ligusticum politum Kirk

Descriptions

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

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Description

Small, tufted, with erect stems up to 2 dm. tall, us. shorter. Lvs 2-3-pinnate (rarely only 1-pinnate), up to 15 cm. long. Sheaths c. 3 cm. × 8 mm.; stipules subfiliform, with slightly expanded base, unequal, up to 1 cm. long; Petioles ± 10-20 mm. long, internodes very short. Primary pinnae 4-6 pairs, ± 4 cm. long; secondary to c. 1 cm. long, very narrow-linear, flaccid; tertiary ± 1 mm. wide to capillary, mucronulate. Stems of male plants very slender, c. 15 cm. long including lax infl. ± 7 cm. long. Bracts small; sheaths ± 15 × 4 mm., thin; stipules capillary; lamina pinnately to bipinnately divided, up to c. 2 cm. long. Umbels forming a loose open panicle; rays very slender, unequal, up to c. 4 cm. long. Umbellules ± 5 mm. diam., on capillary rays. Stems of female plants stiff, slender, with lax infl. up to ± 5 cm. long. Bract-sheaths c. 10 mm. long; stipules ± linear-lanceolate; lamina pinnately divided. Umbels forming an open panicle, slightly more compound than in male plants; rays unequal, c. 2-3 cm. long, spreading; umbellules very small, on very short rays. Fr. c. 3 mm. long.

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

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Description

2n = 22

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Allan, H.H. (1961)

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Dawson, M.I. (2008)

Aciphylla J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

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Country

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Indicative databased records

Aciphylla polita (Kirk) Cheeseman

[Not available]

118

Metadata

Record id

57657d55-cdc1-4d31-a49c-5e57e56a2dbc

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

11 June 2024

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