Biology:Azorella polaris
| Azorella polaris | |
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| Azorella polaris on Campbell Island | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Azorella |
| Species: | A. polaris
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| Binomial name | |
| Azorella polaris (Hombr. & Jacquinot) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas (2016)[1]
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Azorella polaris, commonly known as the Macquarie Island cabbage, is a species of flowering plant usually placed in the family Araliaceae and only very distantly related to cabbage. It is a megaherb, growing up to about a metre in height, native to the subantarctic islands of New Zealand and to Australia ’s Macquarie Island.
Uses
A. polaris was used as a food source and a scurvy preventative by early explorers and sealers.[2][3] It was eaten by the survivors of the 1907 shipwreck of the Dundonald on Disappointment Island.[4][3]
Conservation status
It is classified as "At Risk - Naturally Uncommon" in the New Zealand threatened plants classification system.[5] On Macquarie Island, it was threatened by introduced black rats and European rabbits,[2] until their eradication in 2011.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Azorella polaris (Hombr. & Jacquinot) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Skotnicki, M.; Selkirk, P.; Kitajima, E.; McBride, T.; Shaw, J.; Mackenzie, A. (January 2003). "The first subantarctic plant virus report: Stilbocarpa mosaic bacilliform badnavirus (SMBV) from Macquarie Island". Polar Biology 26 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1007/s00300-002-0421-8.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hartley, Karri Horton; Guy, Paul; Lord, Janice (2024). "A tale of two species: Pringlea antiscorbutica and Azorella polaris , sub-Antarctic scurvy remedies". Polar Record 60. doi:10.1017/S0032247424000019. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124395802.
- ↑ Escott-Inman, Herbert (1911) (in English). The Castaways of Disappointment Island. London: S.W. Partridge & Co.. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123924640.
- ↑ de Lange, Peter (2012). Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. Department of Conservation. ISBN 978-0-478-14995-1. http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/nztcs3entire.pdf.
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