Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia rubra Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 14: 349, Pl. 30, fig. 2 (1881 [1882])
Synonymy:
- ≡ Psychrophyton rubrum (Buchanan) Beauverd, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 2: 234 (1910)
Description
Stock hard, woody; branches woody at base, densely compacted, forming cushions up to 25 cm. diam. and 15 cm. tall. Lvs 2–4 × 1–1·5 mm., obovate-spathulate, rounded to truncate at tips. Apical portion of lf clad on both surfaces in long straight hairs exceeding lamina; lower portion glab. on both surfaces, 1-nerved. Capitula c. 3 mm. diam. Inner phyll. linear, obtuse, scarious on margins, tip white, short, radiating. Florets 10–15; corolla crimson to purplish. Achenes c. 2.5 mm. long, clad in long silky hairs; pappus-hairs c. 2.5 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.
Buchanan, J. 1882: On the alpine flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 14: 342–356.
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]
Ward, J. M. 1982: A key, synopsis and concordance for Raoulia. Mauri Ora 10: 11–19.
