Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia subsericea Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 136 (1853)
Vernacular Name(s):
Turf mat daisy
Description
Stems prostrate, much-branched, rooting; branchlets ascending or spreading, forming rather dense patches except in shade. Lvs laxly to rather closely imbricate, ± 3–6 × 1 mm., thin, pale green; 3-nerved, the lateral pair often obscure, sts absent, suberect to spreading, narrow-oblong, subacute to obtuse, rather sparsely clad below in appressed thin silvery to golden tomentum, ± glab. above, us. with a small tuft at tip. Capitula up to 1cm. diam.; inner phyll. oblong, c. 6–7 × 1mm., widened to conspicuous, obtuse, white radiate tips. Florets 25–45, < half ♀; corolla narrow-funnelform. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, pubescent to nearly glab.; pappus-hairs 3–5 mm. long, slender, very slightly thickened at tips, papillae claviform.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
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. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Ward, J. M. 1982: A key, synopsis and concordance for Raoulia. Mauri Ora 10: 11–19.
