Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Raoulia Hook.f. ex Raoul
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia glabra Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 135 (1853)
Vernacular Name(s):
Mat daisy
 Description

Stems prostrate, laxly branched, rooting; branchlets ascending; forming lax patches up to 3 dm. diam. Lvs laxly imbricate to rather distant, membr., pale green, 3–5 × < 1 mm., nearly glab., often with a small tuft of hairs near dorsal tip, narrowly ovate- to linear-oblong, gradually narrowed to obtuse or subacute apex; 3-nerved, lateral nerves often obscure, sts absent. Capitula up to ± 9 mm. diam. Inner phyll. ± 5 mm. long, narrowly ovate-elliptic to linear-oblong, margins hyaline, narrowed to obtuse white or yellowish radiate tips. Florets 30–50, c. 5 mm. long, narrow-funnelform, < half ♀. Achenes up to 1 mm. long, narrow-oblong, puberulous to nearly glab.; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, slender, not thickened at tips; papillae claviform.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Ward, J. M. 1982: A key, synopsis and concordance for Raoulia. Mauri Ora 10: 11–19.