Flora of New Zealand Series

Ligusticum flabellatum Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 205.

Aciphylla flabellata Ckn. Rep. Bot. Surv. St. Id 1909, 59.

Type locality: "in crevices of syenitic rocks near the South Cape". Type: W, T. Kirk.

Herb seldom > 5 cm. tall. Lvs 1-pinnate, on petioles ± 3 mm. long, with broad sheaths up to 2 cm. long. Lamina narrow-oblong in outline, coriac., glab., 2-(4) cm. long. Pinnae 1-3 pairs, sts reduced to the terminal pinna, 4-8 × 4-8 mm., flabellate-cuneate to rhomboid, rounded at tip, sessile, coriac., glaucous; margins rather obscurely crenulate to entire, cartilaginous, ± recurved. Stem 1-4 cm. tall; umbels compound; primary rays 3-4 involucral bracts obsolete; secondary rays with involucre of 3 broad bracts, connate except on one side. Fr. about oblong in outline to suborbicular; mericarps 4-5-winged; vittae 4-5.

DIST.: St. Coastal rocky places and cliffs.

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