Azorella Lam.

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Name scientific

Azorella Lam., Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] 1, 344 (1783)

Preferred name

Azorella Lam.

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]

Linked name

Azorella Lam. 1783

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Plunkett, G.M; Nicolas, A.N. (2017)

Nomenclature

Authors

Lam.

Original authors

Lam.

Publication place

Lamarck, J.B.A.P.M. de 1783: Encyclopédie Méthodique. Botanique. Vol. 1. Part 1. Panckoucke, Paris.

Year published

1783

Publication page

344

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Azorella Lam.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Azorella

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Apiales

Family

Umbelliferae

Genus

Azorella

Subordinates

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Azorella Lam.

Description

Umbels terminal, few- to many-fld, on very short peduncles. Involucral bracts us. free; calyx-teeth prominent, sts petal-like. Disk thick and fleshy. Mericarps subterete or very slightly dorsally compressed, 5-ribbed. Densely tufted herbs, often forming cushionlike masses. Lvs alt., closely imbricate, ± appressed, entire to dissected. A genus of some 70 spp., mainly of southern S. America; the N.Z. sp. widespread in Antarctica.

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

Kirkophytum (Harms) Allan

Description

Monoec. or polygamous herbs; umbels axillary and terminal, compound, congested; bracts foliaceous, bractlets smaller. Hypanthium shallowly 3-5-grooved; calyx truncate; petals 5, stamens 5, disk annular; ovary 2-loculed, style-branches 2; fr. subglobose, not hollowed at apex; stylopodia prominent; seeds one per locule, ovoid. Lvs large. Endemic to Snares, Stewart Id, and adjacent islets.

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

Schizeilema (Hook.f.) Domin

Description

Fls 5-merous in simple to irregularly compound bracted umbels. Calyx-teeth 5, prominent, persistent; petals imbricate; disk thick, flat. Fr. ± tetragonous; mericarps subterete to dorsally somewhat compressed; ribs 5, evenly placed, lateral not close to commissure. Glab. perennial herbs with creeping and rooting stolons. Lvs simple to 3-5- foliolate. Some 15 spp., mainly of N.Z., with 1 in Falkland Is, 1 in Patagonia, and 1 in Victoria. The N.Z. and Australian spp. lack a district carpophore. The treatment follows in large part that of Domin in Engl. Bot. Jb. 40, 1908, 573-585.

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

Stilbocarpa A.Gray

Description

Polygamodioec. herb. Umbels terminal and axillary, compound; bracts foliaceous, bractlets smaller. Fls jointed on top of pedicels. Hypanthium with 2-4 grooves; calyx obsolescent; petals 5, stamens 5, disk annular; ovary 4-3-loculed; style-branches 4-3, stylopodia ill-developed; fr. subglobose, hollowed at apex; seeds 1 per locule, ovoid. Large herb with stout rhizomes; lvs large, on fistular petioles. Endemic to Subantarctic Is.

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