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Briza maxima L.

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Briza maxima L. (1753)
Briza maxima L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
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Briza maxima L.
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Briza maxima

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maxima

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Briza maxima L.

Annual loose tufts or solitary shoots, (18)-25-65-(90) cm. Leaf-sheath papery, glabrous, finely ribbed, light green, light brown or purplish. Ligule 2-4-(5) mm, glabrous, denticulate, centrally tapered. Leaf-blade (2.2)-5-23 cm × 2-8 mm, thin, flat, finely ribbed, gradually tapered to fine acicular tip, abaxially occasionally sparsely prickle-toothed on ribs, adaxially ribs usually finely scaberulous; margins finely scaberulous. Culm (12)-20-50 cm, erect or geniculate at base, internodes glabrous. Panicle (2.2)-4-13-(16) cm, secund, nodding, of 1-12, rarely to 18, papery spikelets; branches few, sparsely scabrid, pedicels filiform, 0.5-2-(3) cm. Spikelets 1-2-(2.5) × 0.6-1.5 cm, 8-15-flowered, silvery, light green to golden-brown, often dark purplish at base. Glumes subequal, 5-6-(6.6) mm, (5)-7-9-nerved, spreading, firmly membranous, concave, suborbicular, smooth, often purplish. Lemma 6.5-8.5 mm, 7-9-(11)-nerved, centrally hardened and concave, glabrous, base cordate, sometimes with minute glandular hairs especially on auricle-like extensions, and appressed fine hairs on broad, firmly membranous margins, apex subacute. Palea 3-4 mm, to ⅔ length of lemma, orbicular, keels finely winged and densely short-ciliate, interkeel glabrous. Lodicules (1)-2-3 mm, lanceolate, obtuse. Anthers 1.5-2 mm. Gynoecium: ovary c. 1 mm; stigma-styles 2 mm. Caryopsis 2.5-3 × 1.5-2 mm; embryo 0.7-1 mm; hilum linear, 1.2-1.5 mm.

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Briza maxima L.
Briza maxima L.

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Briza maxima L.
Australia
Briza maxima L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Briza maxima L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Briza maxima L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Briza maxima L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Briza maxima L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Briza maxima L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Briza maxima L.
Norfolk Island

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064eb9f2-cbaa-4eba-b067-d4a983b8f9ce
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1 January 2000
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