Flora of New Zealand Series

Panax edgerleyi Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 94.

Raukana edgerleyi (Hook. f.) Seem. in J. Bot., Lond. 4, 1866, 352.

Nothopanax edgerleyi (Hook. f.) Harms in Pflanzenfam. 3 (8), 1894, 48.

Type locality: N., "mountainous parts of the interior". Type: K, "Colenso, N.Z., 1849".

Tree up to 10 m. or more tall, with trunk up to c. 4 dm. diam. Lvs aromatic, green and shining above, paler below, membr. to subcoriac. Juveniles with 3-5-foliolate lvs, terminal lflt subsessile to shortly stalked, 5-15 × 1·5-3·5 cm.; all lflts linear-oblong, acuminate to acute, deeply lobed. Older plants mainly 3-foliolate; terminal lflts subsessile to shortly stalked, 10-15 × 2.5-3·5 cm.; all lflts shallowly lobed to sinuate-serrate to entire, acuminate to obtuse. Adult plants with predominately unifoliolate lvs; lamina 7-15 × 3-5 cm., obovate-cuneate to elliptic-oblong, acuminate to obtuse, entire to sinuate; veins evident; petioles 1·5-5 cm. long. Umbels small, 10-15-fld, axillary, paniculately arranged. Fls greenish; ovary 3-4-loculed, style-branches 3-4, connate at base. Fr. c. 3-4 cm. diam., globose; seeds 3-4.

DIST.: N., S., St. Lowland to lower montane forest from lat. 35° southwards. Raukawa.

FL.- FT. 11-3.

Kirk's var. serratum, Stud. Fl. 1899, 218, is based on specimens from Stewart Id, the lvs more regularly serrate than usual.