Angelica decipiens Hook.f.
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.