Raoulia bryoides Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Raoulia bryoides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 332 (1855)

Preferred name

Raoulia bryoides Hook.f.

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

Hook.f.

Authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1854–1855: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. Lovell Reeve, London.

Year published

1855

Publication page

332

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Raoulia bryoides Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Raoulia bryoides

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Raoulia

Species

bryoides

Synonyms

Psychrophyton bryoides (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 bryoides Hook.f.

Description

Stock stout, woody; branches densely compacted, woody at base, forming hard rounded cushions up to c. 20 cm. diam. Lvs densely imbricate, c. 3 × 1 mm., obovate-oblong to rhomboid-spathulate, narrowed to apex; basal portion membr., glab., 1-nerved, apical portion subcoriac., clad on both surfaces with appressed silky hairs, with lateral tufts of floccose tangled hairs below. Capitula 5-7 mm. diam., inner phyll. 5 mm. long, narrow-oblong, acute to acuminate, margins scarious, tips white, radiate. Florets 7-15, ♀ fewer than perfect and sterile. Achenes < 1mm. long, densely clad in long silky hairs. Pappus-hairs c. 3·5 mm. long, rigid.

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