Raoulia hookeri var. laxa Allan
Type locality: fine debris of terminal moraine of Franz Josef Glacier. Type: BD 66506, H. H. Allan.
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.
DIST.: S. On fine debris and sandy riverbed, Waiho R.; shores of Lake Manapouri.
