Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Raoulia Hook.f. ex Raoul
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia cinerea Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 45: 269 (1912 [1913])
 Description

Stock rather woody, stems rather closely branched, branchlets ascending, forming flat patches. Lvs closely imbricate, 3-nerved, ascending, incurved at tips, 5–7 mm. long, linear, acuminate; basal portion membr., c. 1 mm. wide, clad in loose tomentum; apical portion densely clad in appressed white tomentum, margins slightly revolute. Capitula up to 5 mm. diam.; inner phyll. linear-lanceolate, acute, scarious, yellowish; apices pale brown, ± pilose on back. Achenes hardly 1 mm. long, narrow-oblong, glab. to puberulous; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long--some flattened towards base, others terete, all slender, not or hardly thickened at apex.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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