Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia monroi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 148 (1864)
Synonymy:
- = Raoulia cheesemanii Beauverd, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 4: 55, f. 14 (1912)
Description
Stems prostrate, creeping and rooting; final branchlets ascending; forming close to open flat patches. Lvs closely distichously arranged, 2–3 mm. long, linear-oblong to oblong-spathulate, obtuse, sts apiculate; basal portion 3-nerved, membr., clad in appressed white tomentum; apical portion spreading, involute; ventral surface ± densely clad in matted tomentum; dorsal surface with appressed dense to sparse tomentum. Capitula up to 5 mm. diam. Inner phyll. 3–5 × c. 1 mm., linear-oblong, glab. except for sparse hairs at tips, pale yellow-green, margins hyaline, obtuse tips us. dark brown. Florets ± 15, ♀ 8–10. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, papillate-pubescent; pappus-hairs slender, papillae very finely claviform, c. 3·5 mm. long, not thickened at tips.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Beauverd, G. 1912: Contributions a l'étude des Composées: B) Nouvelles recherches sur le genre Raoulia. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève, sér. 2, 4: 41–55.
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. [Declining]
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. [Nationally Vulnerable]
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. [Declining]
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.
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