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Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia hookeri var. laxa Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 706, 975 (1961)
Description
Forming lax patches up to c. 30 cm. diam.; branches very slender, prostrate and rooting; branchlets ∞, laxly disposed, spreading to erect. Lvs rather distant, internodes c. 2 mm. long; lamina 3–4 mm. long, narrow-spathulate; membr. and glab. at base; spreading apical portion ± inflexed, subcoriac., obtuse, clad on ventral surface in dense woolly tomentum, on dorsal surface in appressed silky hairs. Capitula c. 6 mm. diam.; phyll. 4 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, greenish yellow to brownish. Achenes linear, c. 1 mm. long, minutely papillose-pubescent; pappus-hairs up to 4 mm. long, ∞, white, shining.
[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. [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. [Not Threatened]
Ward, J. M. 1982: A key, synopsis and concordance for Raoulia. Mauri Ora 10: 11–19.
