Flora of New Zealand Series

Calosciadium antipodum Endl. ex. Walp. loc. cit. 702.

Lingusticum antipodum Homb. et Jacq. ex Decne in Voy Pôle Sud 1853, 63.

Type locality: Campbell Id. Type: K, 1599, J.D.H.

Very robust, up to ± 1 m. tall. stems deeply furrowed. stock very stout, taproot deeply descending. Lvs on petioles 15-20 × (0·5)-1-2 cm.; sheaths broad, up to 8 cm. long, tapering to petiole, shortly bluntly ligulate. Lamina rigid, coriac., about oblong to deltoid in outline, (10)-15-(25) × (6)-12-(16) cm. Primary pinnae 5-10 pairs, (3)-4-6-(10) × 3-(8) cm., rather distant, but often overlapping; secondary pinnae deeply cut into narrow segs ± 25 × 1·5-2 mm., the cartilaginous margins extended into pungent tips ± 1-2 mm. long Umbels us. many, on long peduncles, compound, ± 5 cm. diam.; involucral bracts linear. Calyx-lobes triangular, subacute; petals reddish mauve to white. Fr. ± 6·5 mm. long; mericarps unequal, us. one with 5, the other with 3-4 well-developed wings.

DIST.: A., C., Ant. Herbfield, formerly abundant, now reduced by stock.

FL. 10-2. FT. 3.

The petal-colour is as given by Sorensen (loc. cit). Hooker (Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 95) gives "pink".