Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Hokianga "On a damp bank." Type: K, R. Cunningham, 1834. The type is a small matted piece.

Glab. or with a few hairs near apex of petiole and peduncle, forming small patches. Lvs on petioles up to 10-20 mm. long. Lamina (2)-3-4-(9) mm. diam.; 5-7 lobed; lobes shallow, minutely crenulate; sinus narrow, often closed. Umbels 2-5-fld, rarely more, on peduncles ± 10 mm. long. Fr. glab., ± 1·5-2-(3) mm. diam., subsessile or shortly pedicelled, somewhat turgid. Mericarps rounded on dorsal edge to bluntly keeled, reddish brown; lateral ribs us. obscure.

DIST.; N., S., St., Coastal to lowland open places in damp ground from lat. 35º southwards, local.

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