Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
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Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 135, t. 36A (1853)
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1853
135, t. 36A
ICN
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
species
Raoulia tenuicaulis
Classification
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Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Stems slender, creeping and rooting, laxly to densely branched; branchlets ascending; forming flat patches or mats up to c. 1 m. diam. Lvs laxly to closely imbricate, spreading, up to 5 × 2 mm., sublanceolate, tapering from base to acute or apiculate apex; basal portion appressed, scarious, 1-nerved; apical portion sparsely clad in appressed whitish tomentum; subcapitular lvs sts obtuse. Capitula up to 6 mm. diam.; inner phyll. c. 4 mm. long, glab., linear-oblong to ovate, obtuse or retuse to subacute, margins broad, hyaline, tips ± darkened, not radiate. Florets 10-20, c. half ♀. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, glab. to puberulous; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long, very slender, not thickened at tips, with very obscure papillae.
Lvs dimorphic: (a) c. 4 × 2 mm., broadly obovate-cuneate, obtuse, often apiculate, clad on both surfaces in dense appressed white tomentum; (b) on lower parts of branchlets, c. 2 mm. long, linear, acute, tomentum thin. Transitional lvs also occur. Inner phyll. with pale tips.
Branchlets close-set, seldom > 15 mm. long; forming mosslike patches; lvs glab., linear, up to 2 mm. long, margins inrolled; phyll. us. less dark at tips; ♀ c. twice perfect.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
2n = 28
2n = 28
2n = 28
Taxonomic concepts
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis var. dimorpha Allan
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis var. dimorpha Allan
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis var. pusilla Kirk
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis var. pusilla Kirk
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f. var. tenuicaulis
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f. var. tenuicaulis
Raoulia tenuicaulis Hook.f.
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1 January 2000
29 May 2006