Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia goyenii Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 16: 373 (1883 [1884]) – as (?) Raoulia goyeni
Synonymy:
- ≡ Psychrophyton goyenii (Kirk) Beauverd, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 2: 234 (1910) – as Psychrophyton goyeni
Vernacular Name(s):
Stewart Island vegetable sheep
Description
Stock and branch-bases woody; branches densely compacted, forming greenish cushions or mats up to 1 m. diam. and 20 cm. tall. Lvs densely imbricate, 3–4 × 0·5–1 mm., linear-oblong, widened and truncate at apex, 1-nerved, dorsal surface with brush of long hairs near base, glab. above; ventral surface glab. below, with brush of straight hairs at tip, exceeding and concealing lamina. Capitula 3–5 mm. diam. Inner phyll. linear, c. 2.5 mm. long, scarious on margins, obtuse to acute, tips erect, often white. Achenes < 1 mm. long, clad in stiff hairs; pappus-hairs c. 2.5 mm. long, stiff.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Beauverd, G. 1910: Contribution à l'Étude des Composées. Suite V: Recherches sur la tribu des Gnaphaliées. Raoulia, Psychrophyton, Ewartia, Leucogenes and Leontopodium. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève, sér. 2, 2: 207–260.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Kirk, T. 1884 ("1883"): Description of new Plants collected on Stewart Island. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 371–374.
Ward, J. M. 1982: A key, synopsis and concordance for Raoulia. Mauri Ora 10: 11–19.
