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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Raoulia subulata Hook.f.

R. subulata Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 149.

Psychrophyton subulatum Beauverd loc. cit. 1910, 229, f. 10.

Type locality: "Nelson Mountains". Type: K, Sinclair.

Closely branched ± tufted herb forming patches up to 10 cm. diam.; branches up to c. 4 cm. long. Lvs densely imbricate, suberect to spreading, 3-6-(10) × 0·5-1 mm., glab., membr., firm, prominently 1-nerved, lanceolate, acuminate. Capitula ± 4 mm. diam. Phyll. scarious, 3-4 × ± 1 mm.; inner irregularly laciniate at tips. Florets 15-25, ♀ fewer than perfect and sterile; corolla subfunnelform, lobes ± acute. Achenes < 1mm. long, papillae long-claviform; pappus-hairs c. 3 mm. long, rather rigid, slightly thickened above; papillae claviform. Receptacle hispid.

DIST.: S. Subalpine herbfield from lat. 41° 30' southwards.

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