Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Raoulia Hook.f. ex Raoul
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia mammillaris Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 150 (1864)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Psychrophyton mammillare (Hook.f.) Beauverd, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 2: 232-234, f. 14 (1910)
Vernacular Name(s):
Vegetable sheep
 Description

Stock stout, woody; branches densely compacted, woody at base, forming hard rounded cushions up to 50 cm. diam. Lvs densely imbricate, c. 3–4 × 1 mm., obovate-spathulate, rounded at apex; basal portion glab. on ventral surface, clad in floccose hairs on dorsal surface below apex; apical portion clad on both surfaces in straight ascending hairs but little exceeding lamina-apex. Capitula up to 6·5 mm. diam., inner phyll. c. 4 mm. long, narrow-oblong, margins scarious; tips obtuse, white, radiating. Florets 10–12. Achenes up to 1·25 mm. long, clad in long silky hairs; pappus-hairs c. 3 mm. long, rigid.

[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.; 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. 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.