Pseudopanax gilliesii Kirk

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Name scientific

Pseudopanax gilliesii Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 221 (1899)

Preferred name

Pseudopanax gilliesii Kirk

Taxonomy reference

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

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Kirk

Original 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

221

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Panax lessonii var. heterophyllus Kirk

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pseudopanax gilliesii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Apiales

Family

Araliaceae

Genus

Pseudopanax

Species

gilliesii

Synonyms

Panax lessonii var. heterophyllus Kirk

Descriptions

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

Pseudopanax gilliesii Kirk

Description

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, with slender branches. Lvs unifoliolate; lamina coriac., c. 4-8 cm. long, ovate, acute to acuminate, sharply serrate, on slender petioles up to 4 cm. long; occ. 3-foliolate or irregularly lobed lvs occur, with lflts c. 7-8 cm. long, lanceolate-cuneate. Umbels terminal; primary rays 3-6, c. 8 cm. long, fls racemosely arranged. Ovary 5-loculed, 5-ovuled; style-branches 5, connate, free at tips. Fr. subglobose, c. 6 mm. diam.

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