Raoulia hookeri var. laxa Allan

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Name scientific

Raoulia hookeri var. laxa Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 706, 975 (1961)

Preferred name

Raoulia hookeri var. laxa Allan

Taxonomy reference

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

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Allan

Authors

Allan

Publication place

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

Year published

1961

Publication page

706, 975

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Raoulia hookeri var. laxa Allan

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Raoulia hookeri var. laxa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Raoulia

Species

hookeri

Descriptions

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

Raoulia hookeri var. laxa Allan

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.

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