Gingidia trifoliolata
Synonyms
Ligusticum trifoliolatum Hook.f., Angelica trifoliolata (Hook.f.) Cockayne, Anisotome enysii var. tennysonianum Laing,
Family
Apiaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Native
Endemic taxon
Yes
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Structural class
Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites
NVS code
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.
GINTRI
Chromosome number
2n = 22
Current conservation status
The threat classification status of all known New Zealand vascular plant taxa at the rank of species and below were reassessed in 2017 using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS) – more information about this can be found on the NZTCS website This report includes a statistical summary and brief notes on changes since 2012 and replaces all previous NZTCS lists for vascular plants. Authors: By Peter J. de Lange, Jeremy R. Rolfe, John W. Barkla, Shannel P. Courtney, Paul D. Champion, Leon R. Perrie, Sarah M. Beadel, Kerry A. Ford, Ilse Breitwieser, Ines Schönberger, Rowan Hindmarsh-Walls, Peter B. Heenan and Kate Ladley. Please note, threat classifications are often suggested by authors when publications fall between NZTCS assessment periods – a suggested threat classification status has not been assessed by the NZTCS panel.
Source: NZTCS and licensed by DOC for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
2017 | At Risk – Naturally Uncommon | Qualifiers: DP, RR, Sp
Previous conservation statuses
2012 | At Risk – Naturally Uncommon | Qualifiers: RR, Sp
2009 | At Risk – Naturally Uncommon | Qualifiers: DP
2004 | Sparse
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. Sometimes in wetlands.
Wetland plant indicator status rating
Information derived from the revised national wetland plant list prepared to assist councils in delineating and monitoring wetlands (Clarkson et al., 2021 Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Contract Report LC3975 for Hawke’s Bay Regional Council). The national plant list categorises plants by the extent to which they are found in wetlands and not ‘drylands’. The indicator status ratings are OBL (obligate wetland), FACW (facultative wetland), FAC (facultative), FACU (facultative upland), and UPL (obligate upland).
FAC: Facultative
Commonly occurs as either a hydrophyte or non-hydrophyte (non-wetlands).
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
Life cycle
Winged mericarps are dispersed by wind (Thorsen et al., 2009).
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 its 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.
Etymology
gingidia: A Syrian carrot
trifoliolata: With three leaflets
Where To Buy
Not commercially available
Attribution
Fact sheet prepared by P.J. de Lange for NZPCN (1 June 2013).
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.
NZPCN Fact Sheet citation
Please cite as: de Lange, P.J. (Year at time of access): Gingidia trifoliolata Fact Sheet (content continuously updated). New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. https://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/gingidia-trifoliolata/ (Date website was queried)