Flora of New Zealand Series

Ligusticum (?) carnosulum Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 95.

Type: K, Haast, 1861.

Small herb hardly up to 15 cm. tall, everywhere thick and fleshy; aerial parts sprawling, dark slate- to blue-grey. Taproot stout, long, much-branched. Lvs few to many, on petioles 2-4-(5) cm. long; sheaths short, broad. Lamina ± 5-(8) × 4-(5) cm., 2-3 times ternately divided; final segs up to c. 2 cm. long, very narrow-linear, subterete, subacute to obtuse. Umbels solitary, compound, up to 5-(10) cm. diam., on stout peduncles up to c. 2 cm. long. Involucral bracts (4)-5-(6), lflike, ternately divided, surpassing umbel, segs to 2 cm. long. Primary rays ± 10, stout, almost woody, ribbed, ± 2-3 cm. long. Secondary rays ± 10, stout, ribbed ± 3 mm. long. ♂ and ♀ in same umbel; petals white, 2-3 mm. long strongly incurved. Carpophores slender, ± 5 mm. long. Fr.(3)-5-(6) × 2-3 mm., oblong in outline; mericarps with 5 broad, rounded ribs; commissural face ± rounded. Vittae 1 per furrow, 2 on commissural face. Styles rather stout, up to c. 5 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine debris slopes from c. lat. 41º 30' to nearly 44º east of divide.

FL. 11-2. FT.2-3. Type locality; Mount Torlesse.