Authors: Arn.   L.  

Botanical Description

Variable mat-former with gleaming silvery indumentum, the stems creeping and rooting. Leaves oblong-ovate to somewhat spathulate 3-10mm long, densely borne, those at the stem tips rosetted. Flowering stems l-5cm tall. Flowerheads solitary and terminal or sometimes with a few others in the upper leaf axils, 4-9 by 0.3-lmm. Chile and Argentina, in the southern volcano and lake district on bare volcanic ash or sand flats and slopes, also in screes and between rocks at 900-2000m. The commonest and best known member of its genus and much like a mat-forming New Zealand Raoulia.