Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Aira elegans Kunth

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is foreign
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Aira elegans Kunth (1833)
Aira elegans Kunth

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Kunth
Kunth
1833
ICN
Aira elegans Kunth
species
Aira elegans

Click to collapse Classification Info

elegans

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Aira elegans Kunth

Slender, erect, reddish green tufts 5-25-(30) cm, with very delicate loose panicles; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath submembranous, rather closely distinctly ribbed, ribs minutely scabrid almost to base. Ligule 1.5-4 mm, smooth, tapered, minutely denticulate, abaxially occasionally sparsely scabrid. Leaf-blade 1-6.5 cm × 0.2-0.3 mm diam., inrolled, abaxially minutely scabrid on ribs, adaxially with minute hairs; margins minutely scabrid, tip subacute to obtuse. Culm internodes glabrous. Panicle 2-10 × 2-8 cm, ovate, very lax; branches smooth to sparsely scabrid, capillary, spreading, pedicels » spikelets. Spikelets silvery green. Glumes 1.5-2.5 mm, 1-nerved, shining, ovate-lanceolate, acute, keel sparsely minutely scabrid, margins very finely ciliate-scabrid. Lemma 1.2-1.5 mm, firmly membranous, brownish, hyaline near apex, upper ½ minutely scabrid; lower lemma sometimes awnless, upper lemma, or both lemmas, with awn 1.8-2.5 mm, from lower ⅓ of lemma, projecting beyond glumes. Palea narrower than lemma, keels rounded, glabrous. Callus ringed by minute hairs. Rachilla minute, glabrous; prolongation vestigial. Anthers c. 0.3 mm. Caryopsis c. 1 × 0.3 mm.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Aira elegans Kunth
Aira elegans Kunth
Aira elegans Kunth
Aira elegans Kunth
Aira elegans Kunth
Aira elegantissima Schur
Aira elegans Kunth
Aira elegantissima Schur
Aira elegans Kunth

Click to collapse Collections Info

Aira elegans Kunth
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Aira elegans Kunth
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Aira elegans Kunth
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

Click to collapse Metadata Info

0e57e9d7-8c08-4cdc-a791-5a6f539140b4
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 January 2013
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top