Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Raoulia Hook.f. ex Raoul
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Raoulia petriensis Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 9: 549 (1877)
 Description

Stems laxly branched, branches and branchlets ascending. Lvs densely imbricate, 4–6 × up to 3 mm., obovate-spathulate, apiculate; lower portion appressed, membr., 3-nerved, ± golden, silky-hairy; apical portion coriac., clad in dense felted white to yellowish tomentum, tip strongly thickened and recurved. Capitula 6–7 mm. diam.; inner phyll. 4–5 mm. long, linear, margins hyaline; tips white, ± pubescent, radiate. Florets 30–50, ♀ few. Achenes up to 1 mm. long, finely pubescent; pappus-hairs c. 50, c. 4 mm. long, mainly compressed, thickened and papillate at tips, a few slender and hardly thickened at tips.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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