Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Raoulia Hook.f. ex Raoul
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia hectorii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 149 (1864)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Psychrophyton hectorii (Hook.f.) Beauverd, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 2: 231 (1910)
 Description

Stems prostrate, branchlets ascending, forming rather dense flattened patches. Lvs densely imbricate, spreading from erect base, 3–4 mm. long, 3-nerved, broadly ovate; apex thickened, obtuse to apiculate; upper portion clad in appressed silvery tomentum; basal portion glab., scarious, 3-nerved. Capitula c. 4 mm. diam.; inner phyll. narrow-oblong, stramineous, margins scarious, tips not white, not radiate. Florets 10–18, ♀ few. Achenes < 1 mm. long, pubescent; pappus-hairs rigid, 3–4 mm. long, distinctly thickened at tips.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Raoulia hectorii Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 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.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Ward, J. M. 1982: A key, synopsis and concordance for Raoulia. Mauri Ora 10: 11–19.