Raoulia (Asteraceae)

Raoulia australis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Asteroideae
Tribus: Gnaphalieae
Subtribus: Gnaphaliinae
Genus: Raoulia
Species: R. albosericea – R. apice-nigra – R. australis – R. beauverdii – R. bryoides – R. buchananii – R. cinerea – R. eximia – R. glabra – R. goyenii – R. grandiflora – R. haastii – R. hectorii – R. hookeri – R. mammillaris – R. monroi – R. parkii – R. petriensis – R. × petrimia – R. rubra – R. subsericea – R. subulata – R. tenuicaulis – R. youngii

Source(s) of checklist:
Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Raoulia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 May 15. Reference page.

Name

Raoulia Hook.f. ex Raoul, Choix Pl. Nouv.-Zelande 20. (1846)

• Type species: Raoulia australis Hook.f. ex Raoul

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Raoulia Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.). 1: 134, tt. 36, 37 (1852), isonym.
  • Gnaphalium sect. Raoulia (Raoul) Baill., Histoire des Plantes 8 (1882).
• Heterotypic
  • Psychrophyton Beauverd in Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 2: 227 (1910)
  • Gnaphalium section Psychrophyton (Hook.f. ex Raoul) Baill.

References

Primary references

• Raoul, E. 1846. Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande. 55 pp., 30 pl., Fortin, Masson & Co., Paris. Gallica, Google-BooksReference page. 

Additional references

• Ward, J.M. 1993. Systematics of New Zealand Inuleae (Compositae-Asteraceae)—2 A numerical phenetic study of Raoulia in relation to allied genera. New Zealand Journal of Botany 31(1): 29-42. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1993.10419532 Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Raoulia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 Aug. 21. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2018. Raoulia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Apr. 30. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Raoulia. Published online. Accessed: May 1 2018.
• Tropicos.org 2014. Raoulia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 17 Mar. 2014.

Vernacular names

English: Vegetable Sheep

For more multimedia, look at Raoulia on Wikimedia Commons.