Flora of New Zealand Series

Ligusticum enysii Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 9, 1877, 548.

Type locality: Broken River, Canterbury, on limestone rocks. type: W, J. D. Enys and T. Kirk.

Low-growing tufted herb seldom up to 10 cm. tall. Lvs 1-pinnate, on petioles up to ± 4 cm. long with sheaths ± 1 cm. long, ± liguled. Lamina (3)-4-10 cm. long, coriac., glab. or nearly so, glaucous. Pinnae (4)-6-(10) pairs, ± 10 × 10 mm., shortly petioluled to subsessile, broadly ovate suborbicular, sharply toothed to ± ⅓ way, with occ. deeper incisions; teeth acute, not hair-pointed. Stem up to ± 10 cm. long, us. decumbent. Umbels us. compound, on peduncles up to c. 4 cm. long. Primary rays unequal, 2-5 slender, 6-20 mm. long; involucral bracts 2-3, connate into a cup-shaped involucre. Secondary rays 3-6, short; involucral bracts linear. Fls small. Fr. narrow-ovoid, 3-3·5 mm. long; mericarps with 5 rather obscure blunt ridges.

DIST.: S. Montane rocky places and debris, especially limestone: Broken River Basin, Banks Peninsula, Central Otago.

FL. 12-2. FT. 1-3.