Raoulia cinerea Petrie
Type locality: Shingly Range at 1450 m. Type: W, Cockayne 2371, 27/12/1911.
Stock rather woody, stems rather closely branched, branchlets ascending, forming flat patches. Lvs closely imbricate, 3-nerved, ascending, incurved at tips, 5-7 mm. long, linear, acuminate; basal portion membr., c. 1 mm. wide, clad in loose tomentum; apical portion densely clad in appressed white tomentum, margins slightly revolute. Capitula up to 5 mm. diam.; inner phyll. linear-lanceolate, acute, scarious, yellowish; apices pale brown, ± pilose on back. Achenes hardly 1 mm. long, narrow-oblong, glab. to puberulous; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long--some flattened towards base, others terete, all slender, not or hardly thickened at apex.
DIST.: S. Upper Awatere drainage area; Shingly Range, L. Cockayne, to Mount Barefell.
