Species

Gingidia flabellata

Etymology

Gingidia: a Syrian carrot
flabellata: fan shaped; from the Latin flabellum; shape of the leaves

Common Name(s)

Stewart Island aniseed

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 - Range Restricted

Qualifiers

2012 - RR

Authority

Gingidia flabellata (Kirk) J.W.Dawson

Family

Apiaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Native

NVS Species Code

GINFLA

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

Ligusticum flabellatum Kirk, Aciphylla flabellata (Kirk) Cockayne, Anisotome flabellata (Kirk) Cockayne, Gingidium flabellatum (Kirk) J.W.Dawson

Distribution

Endemic. Stewart Island

Habitat

Amost exclusively coastal. Usually growing in south facing sites subject to salt spray. Amongst rocks, on cliff faces and in peat overlying rock ledges, and in peaty coastal turf. Very rarely found inland on bare granitic rock and associated talus.

Features

Stout, non-rhizomatous herbs, bases covered with withered dead leaf remnants. Petioles stout 10-20 x 0.75-1.5 mm; sheaths 7-12 x 5-10 mm. Leaves once-pinnate, fleshy, 45-55 x 1.0-15 mm, dark green; leaflets sessile or shortly petiolulate; 1-4 pairs of equal size (4.5-5.0 x 4.5-7.5 mm), flabellate, reniform to irregular, simple, never incised; stomata equally abundant on both surfaces, margins obtuse dentate or crenate to edentate. Inflorescences 20-60 mm long with axes 0.75-2.50 mm diameter; compound umbels 1(-2) per inflorescence, simple umbels 2-7 per compound umbel, bracts free or partially fused; flowers up to 12 per simple umbel, styles 1.0-1.5 mm long. Mericarps (excluding style) 2.5-3.0 mm long, dull light orange-yellow to orange, vittae red-brown, brown to dark brown; ovate, apex narrowed to 2-3 ovate-triangular calyx teeth and recurved style; surface broadly convex with 5 equal ribs.

Similar Taxa

Under current concepts morphologically allied to G. enysii (Kirk) J.W.Dawson sens. lat. from which it differs by the absence on the leaves of any glaucous bloom, by the leaflet teeth which are wider than long or with entire margins, and by its allopatric distribution (i.e. endemic to Stewart Island)

Flowering

November - January

Flower Colours

Orange,Yellow

Fruiting

December - May

Propagation Technique

Easily grown from fresh seed but not often cultivated.

Threats

Not Threatened - but generally localised and mainly found in the south-west of the island.

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).

Where To Buy

Not commercially available

 

References and further reading

Thorsen, M. J.; Dickinson, K. J. M.; Seddon, P. J. 2009. Seed dispersal systems in the New Zealand flora. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 11: 285-309

This page last updated on 27 Sep 2014