The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network

Species

Gingidia trifoliolata

Etymology

Gingidia: a Syrian carrot
trifoliolata: with three leaflets

Common Name(s)

None Known

Current Conservation Status

2012 - At Risk - Naturally Uncommon

Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012
The conservation status of all known New Zealand vascular plant taxa at the rank of species and below were reassessed in 2012 using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS). This report includes a statistical summary and brief notes on changes since 2009 and replaces all previous NZTCS lists for vascular plants. Authors: Peter J. de Lange, Jeremy R. Rolfe, Paul D. Champion, Shannel P. Courtney, Peter B. Heenan, John W. Barkla, Ewen K. Cameron, David A. Norton and Rodney A. Hitchmough. File size: 792KB

Previous Conservation Status

2009 - At Risk - Naturally Uncommon
2004 - Sparse

Qualifiers

2012 - RR, Sp
2009 - DP

Authority

Gingidia trifoliolata (Hook.f.) J.W.Dawson

Family

Apiaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Native

NVS Species Code

GINTRI

Structural Class

Dicotyledonous Herbs other than Composites

Synonyms

Ligusticum trifoliolatum Hook.f., Angelica trifoliolata (Hook.f.) Cockayne, Anisotome enysii var. tennysonianum Laing,

Distribution

Endemic. South Island from the southern and eastern Marlborough Ranges and Lake Tennyson to Canterbury

Habitat

montane to subalpine.( > 900 m a.s.l.). Usually found in or under scrub (chiefly grey-scrub) on river terraces, colluvium, steep slopes, alluvial fans, talus slopes and in and around cliff faces and their associated boulder falls.

Features

Glaucous usually solitary herb up to 450 mm tall. All parts smelling faintly of aniseed when bruised or crushed. Taproot stout, 20-80 x 10-15 mm, usually solitary, sometimes multiciple and plants spreading by short rhizomes or stolons. Stems stout, short, basally invested by leaf-remains. Leaves clustered toward base, somewhat flaccid. Petioles slender, up to 100 mm long, expanded at base and sheathing, otherwise tapering toward leaves. Leaves 3-foliolate or pinnate; pinnae 3-5(-7), rather distant, leaflets usually with 2-3-divisions or entire; petiolules up to 20 mm long. Lamina 10-12 x 10-17 mm, firmly fleshy to membranous, yellow-green to pale whitish glaucous above, dark glaucous below, rhomboid to suborbicular, cuneatly narrowed to base or truncate; margins crenulate-denticulate especially towards apex, sometimes entire. Umbels compound, delicate and small, borne on stout to slender often somewhat flaccid peduncles 100-200 mm long, subtended by 1or more leaves these deeply 3-5-lobed. Praimary rays 2-3, unequal, up to 50 mm long, bracts narrow-lanceolate; secondary rays 3-5, stout, bracts minute, linear. Calyx-teeth minute, petals white; styles delicate and slender, spreading, persistent. fruits 6.5 mm long; mericarps compressed, with a pair of broad lateral wings; dorsal ribs conspicuous. Vittae 1 per furrow, 2 on commissural face.

Similar Taxa

Most similar to G. montana (J.R.Forst. et G.Forst.) J.W.Dawson from which it differs by its much smaller size, fewer, and more flaccid leaves which have 3-7-leaflets rather than 11-30 petiolulate (rather than sessile) leaflets.

Flowering

November - January

Flower Colours

White

Fruiting

December - February

Propagation Technique

Difficult - should not be removed from the wild

Threats

Not believed to be threatened but it is undoubtedly eaten where plants are accessible to browsing animals. Apparently always rather localised and never common at any particular place, this species seems to have uits strong hold from southern Marlborough to Central Canterbury. as it is usually found as small, widely scattered, somewhat diffuse populations it may also have suffered from being overlooked during past botanical surveys.

Chromosome No.

2n = 22

Endemic Taxon

Yes

Endemic Genus

No

Endemic Family

No

Life Cycle and Dispersal

Winged mericarps are dispersed by wind (Thorsen et al., 2009).

This page last updated on 28 Sep 2014