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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Angelica L.

ANGELICA L., 1753

Plant dioec. or polygamous; umbels compound; primary rays us.∞; general involucre of few bracts, or 0; secondary us. ∞. Calyx-teeth minute or 0; petals white to greenish. Fr. dorsally much compressed; commissure broad; mericarps almost flat, with 2 broad marginal wings and 3 prominent dorsal ribs. Vittae various in number. Perennial herbs or subshrubs with us. ternately or pinnately compound lvs. Some 70 spp., mainly of northern hemisphere; the N.Z. spp. endemic.

Key

1
Plant a herb with mainly radical lvs
2
Plant a subshrub with scandent or scrambling lfy stems
4
2
Lflts deeply toothed to pinnatifid
1 decipiens
Lflts shallowly crenate or dentate or serrate
3
3
Lflts 11-21; lamina subsessile, 2.5-5 cm. long
3. montana
Lflts 3-7; lamina on petiole up to 4 mm. long. c. 1·5 cm. long
2. trifoliolata
4
Lflts serrate, 2.5cm. or more long
4. rosaefolia
Lflts crenate-dentate, not > 1·5cm. long
5. geniculata
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