Apium prostratum var. filiforme (A.Rich.) Kirk

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Name scientific

Apium prostratum var. filiforme (A.Rich.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 196 (1899)

Preferred name

Apium prostratum var. filiforme (A.Rich.) Kirk

Taxonomy reference

Short, P.S. 1979: Apium L. sect. Apium (Umbelliferae) in Australasia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1: 205–235.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Kirk

Original authors

A.Rich.

Authors

(A.Rich.) 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

196

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Petroselinum filiforme A.Rich.

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Apium prostratum var. filiforme

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Apiales

Family

Umbelliferae

Genus

Apium

Species

prostratum

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Apium filifome (A.Rich.) Hook.f.

Description

Glab. perennial herb with slender deeply descending taproot; stems very slender, branching, prostrate to ascending, often sublianoid, up to c. 4 dm. long. Lvs mostly 3-foliolate (rarely with 1 or 2 further pairs of lflts), on very slender petioles up to ± 6cm. long. Lflts irregularly lobed or incised; terminal lflts up to c. 10 × 10 mm., us. 3-lobed, on petiolules up to 1 cm. long. Umbels up to 10 mm. diam., on very slender peduncles up to ± 3 cm. long; often 3 at a node or with secondary umbels. Rays unequal, 5-15, up to c. 5mm. long. Petals white. Fr. ovoid, ± compressed, subcordate at base; (1)-2 × 1-(2) mm.; ribs thick.

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