Genus Nothopanax Miq.

Nothopanax edgerleyi Harms (Text-figs. 3–6)

1853. Panax edgerleyi Harms Hook f. Fl Nov. Zel i 94.

1925. Nothopanax edgerleyi Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl (2nd Ed.) p. 635 (with synonomy).

1928. Nothopanax reticulatum W. R. B. Oliver, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 59, p. 301, Fig. 18.

1928. Apocyanophyllum novae zelandiae W. R. B. Oliver, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 59, p. 296, Fig. 18.

1928. A. inaequilaterale W. R. B. Oliver, Trans N.Z Inst. 59. p. 298, Fig. 15.

Locality. Esk Valley B209/103, Ormond B195/1, 195/23, 195/37.

Age Nukumaruan-Castlecliffian (Pleistocene).

The shape and venation of Oliver's three fossil species can be closely matched amongst the leaves of the living Nothopanax edgerleyi. Nothopanax reticulatum is stated to differ from N. edgerleyi in the abruptly narrowed base, and absence of regular loops between the ends of the secondary veins, but the basal outline and fine reticulation can be matched in herbarium specimens of N. edgerleyi. The fossil has regular secondary loops similar to those of N. edgerleyi.

Text-Figs 3–6.—3—Nothopanax edqerleyi Miq. Living specimen from Endeavour Inlet. (Herb. Dom. Museum) × 0 65 4—Nothopanax reticulatum Oliver. B195/1 (After Oliver, 1928) × 0.75. 5—Apoonophyullum Oliver B195/37 (After Oliver, 1928) × 0. 75. 6—A. inaequilaterale Oliver. B195/23 (After Oliver, 1928).