Species

Azorella allanii

Etymology

allanii: After Dr Harry Howard Barton Allan C.B.E. (1882–1957) one time school teacher, then first director of DSIR Botany Division, and 'sole' author of Flora I, the first in the former DSIR Botany Division flora series.

Common Name(s)

None known

Current Conservation Status

2012 - At Risk - Naturally Uncommon

Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012
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Previous Conservation Status

2009 - At Risk - Naturally Uncommon
2004 - Data Deficient

Qualifiers

2012 - RR
2009 - RR

Authority

Azorella allanii (Cheeseman) G. M. Plunkett et A. N. Nicolas

Family

Apiaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Native

NVS Species Code

SCHALL

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

Structural Class

Dicotyledonous Herbs other than Composites

Synonyms

Schizeilema allanii Petrie nom. illeg.; Schizeilema allanii Cheeseman

Distribution

Endemic. North Island, known from the eastern ranges. With certainty from the Raukumara and the Ruahine Range but it is probably elsewhere.

Habitat

Montane to subalpine. In shrubland and open ground.

Features

Hairless creeping herb forming diffuse patches up to 30 cm diameter. Stems creeping, branched, rooting freely at nodes. Leaves confined to nodes. Leaf stalks slender 5-10(-15) cm long. Leaves 2-3 cm diameter, pale green, somewhat leathery, deeply 3-lobed or completely trifoliolate, lobes obcuneate, margins only very slightly thickened or recurved and irregularly lobed or crenulate (like a pie crust) towards apex. Inflorescence an umbel 15 mm diameter, borne on slender, 10 cm long, occasionally branched stalk (peduncle). Flowers 8-12 on unequal pedicels 5-10 mm long, subtending floral bracts (involucral bracts) linear acute to acuminate. Fruit 2.5 mm long, 4-angled, deeply furrowed, mericarps distinctly to obscurely 5-ribbed.

Similar Taxa

Closest to Schizeilema colensoi but distinguished from that species by the leaf margins being scarcely recurved or thickened, and by the pedicels being > 3 time the length of the fruit.

Flowering

No information available

Fruiting

No information available

Propagation Technique

No information available.

Threats

Described in 1923, the species has always been considered uncommon. Very little is known about its exact status in the wild, and this is why it has been listed as Data Deficient.

Endemic Taxon

Yes

Endemic Genus

No

Endemic Family

No

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This page last updated on 29 Aug 2017