Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia hookeri Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 705 (1961)
Vernacular Name(s):
Scabweed; Scabweed mat daisy
 Description

Main stems slender, much-branched, prostrate and rooting; branchlets close-set, forming flat patches up to 5 dm. or more diam. Lvs closely imbricate, membr. towards 3-nerved base, subcoriac. towards rounded to retuse and apiculate apex, ± 2 × 1 mm., narrowly obovate-spathulate, ± inflexed; both surfaces ± glab. in basal part; dorsal surface clad in appressed white to buff, occ. tinged pale yellow, tomentum in apical portion; ventral surface with woolly hairs towards apex. Capitula ± 5–7 mm. diam. Florets c. 15, ± narrow-funnelform. Outer phyll. subfoliaceous; inner up to 5 mm. long, linear, obtuse, not radiate, ± stramineous, margins scarious. Achenes minutely pubescent to nearly glab., us. < 1mm. long; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long, very slender, not or hardly thickened at tips; papillae obscure, claviform.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Raoulia hookeri Allan
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2