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

A. decipiens Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 98.

Aciphylla decipiens Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 1, 1867, 916.

Ligusticum decipiens Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 205.

Type locality: "Terraces near Lake Ohau". Type: K, Haast 101, Dec. 1863.

Glab. herb c. 10-15 cm. tall; stock covered by If-remains; taproot stout, woody. Lvs radical, pinnate, on very short sheathing petioles. Lamina with 5-10 pairs of lflts 5-6-(12) mm. long; lflts of broad ovate-oblong order, sessile be cuneate base, submembr., irregularly rather deeply toothed to pinnatifid or pinnatisect; teeth narrow-triangular, blunt to subacute; terminal lflt us. tripartite. Peduncles us. nude, rather stout, up to c. 8 cm. long. Umbels compound, up to c. 4 cm. diam; primary rays (2)-4-(8), unequal, up to ± 2 cm. long. Involucral bracts few, linear to lanceolate, us. somewhat expanded at base. Calyx-teeth acute; petals white; style slender. Fr. ± 4-5 mm. long; mericarps narrowly 5-winged, 2 lateral wider than 3 dorsal; vittae 1 under each furrow, 2 commissural.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine damp grassland, streamsides, herbfield throughout, apparently local.

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

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