Raoulia mammillaris Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Raoulia mammillaris Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 150 (1864)

Preferred name

Raoulia mammillaris Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

Ward, J. M. 1982: A key, synopsis and concordance for Raoulia. Mauri Ora 10: 11–19.

Linked name

Raoulia mammillaris Hook.f. 1864

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.

Year published

1864

Publication page

150

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Raoulia mammillaris Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Raoulia mammillaris

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Raoulia

Species

mammillaris

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Vegetable sheep

Synonyms

Psychrophyton mammillare (Hook.f.) Beauverd

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Raoulia mammillaris Hook.f.

Description

Stock stout, woody; branches densely compacted, woody at base, forming hard rounded cushions up to 50 cm. diam. Lvs densely imbricate, c. 3-4 × 1 mm., obovate-spathulate, rounded at apex; basal portion glab. on ventral surface, clad in floccose hairs on dorsal surface below apex; apical portion clad on both surfaces in straight ascending hairs but little exceeding lamina-apex. Capitula up to 6·5 mm. diam., inner phyll. c. 4 mm. long, narrow-oblong, margins scarious; tips obtuse, white, radiating. Florets 10-12. Achenes up to 1·25 mm. long, clad in long silky hairs; pappus-hairs c. 3 mm. long, rigid.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.