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Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela

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Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela in Peterson et al., Taxon 63: 1236 (2014)
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela

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Exotic
Casual
New Zealand
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(H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
H.Groves & J.Groves
P.M.Peterson & Saarela
2014
1236
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species
Sporobolus ×townsendii

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×townsendii

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S tiff perennial 10-50 cm high, with fleshy rhizomes, forming dense clumps or meadows. Culms slender, diameter less than 5 mm, closely sheathed; ligule a row of hairs 1-2 mm long; leaf blades 5-35 cm × 4-10 mm, flat or inrolled, ribbed above, persistent or falling. Panicles usually numerous, erect and contracted, 8-25 cm long, of 2-5 spikes 4-10 cm long. Spikelets closely overlapping, narrowly oblong, 10-15 mm × ± 2 mm, 1-flowered, minutely hairy, falling or persistent. Glumes very unequal with the lower up to two-thirds the length of the upper and much narrower; lower glume 1-nerved, + 7 mm × 1 mm, keeled, oblong; upper glume 1-3- nerved,± 13 mm × 3 mm, keeled, oblong-lanceolate, with membranous margins. Lemma slightly shorter than upper glume, minutely hairy, 1-3-nerved with membranous margins. Palea slightly longer than lemma, glabrous. Anthers 5-8 mm, very narrow, indehiscent, brown. Pollen sterile. Seed fails to develop.

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Spartina townsendii H.Groves & J.Groves
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela 2014
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela

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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Sporobolus ×townsendii (H.Groves & J.Groves) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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4 September 2018
27 June 2022
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