Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Raoulia Hook.f. ex Raoul
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia australis Hook.f. ex Raoul in Raoul, Choix Pl. Nouv.-Zél. 20. t. 15 (1846)
Synonymy:
  • = Raoulia australis var. lutescens Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 302 (1899)
  • = Raoulia lutescens Beauverd, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 2: 221, f. 5 (1910)
Vernacular Name(s):
Common mat daisy; Golden scabweed; Scabweed
 Description

Stems prostrate, much-branched, creeping and rooting; final branchlets erect, very densely compacted, forming flat mats or occ. rounded cushions up to 1 m. or more diam. Lvs very densely imbricate in c. 5 series, not > c. 2 mm. long, sts smaller, spathulate, subemarginate, often apiculate; basal portion 1-nerved, nearly glab.; upper portion clad on both surfaces in dense appressed tomentum. Capitula c. 4–5 mm. diam.; inner phyll. 1·5–2.5 mm. long, narrow elliptic-oblong, obtuse, tips shining bright yellow, spreading. Florets 12–20, 3–4 mm. long, subfunnelform, c. half ♀. Achenes 0·5–1 mm. long, nearly glab.; pappus-hairs slender, up to ± 4 mm. long. Style with a distinct stylopodium.

[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. [Declining]
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]
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
Raoul, E. 1846: Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande: recueillies et décrites. Fortin Masson, Paris.
Ward, J. M. 1982: A key, synopsis and concordance for Raoulia. Mauri Ora 10: 11–19.