Raoulia haastii Hook.f.
Type locality: Kowai R. Type: K, 309 Sinclair and Haast, 1860-61.
Stems creeping and rooting; branches ∞, densely packed; branchlets erect or ascending, very close-set; plant forming cushions up to 1 m. or more diam. and 3 dm. or more tall. Lvs very densely imbricate in c. 5 series; basal portion scarious, glab., 3-nerved (lateral nerves us. weak, sts absent), c. 1 × 0·5 mm., suddenly narrowed to blunt apical portion c. 1 mm. long, subcoriac., ± densely clad in appressed silky hairs. Capitula up to 5 mm. diam. Florets 4-10, c. half ♀. Inner phyll. c. 4 mm. long, stramineous, hyaline-margined, linear-oblong, obtuse; apex dark to creamy white, not radiate. Achenes < 1 mm. long, ± puberulous; pappus-hairs up to 3 mm. long, slender, not thickened at tips.
DIST.: S. Montane to lower subalpine riverbeds, east of divide, from lat. 42° 30' to 46°.
