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Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.

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Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv. (1812)
Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Huds.) P.Beauv.
Huds.
P.Beauv.
1812
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Brachypodium sylvaticum

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sylvaticum

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Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.

Soft-leaved, densely tufted perennials 45-90 cm, occasionally very shortly rhizomatous. Leaf-sheath distinctly ribbed, becoming keeled above, usually with long soft hairs. Ligule 1.5-3.5 mm, truncate to rounded and ± erose, short- to long-ciliate, abaxially minutely pubescent and often with longer hairs. Leaf-blade 12-24 cm × 5.5-8.5 mm, flat, soft, loosely hairy, long-narrowed to fine tip. Culm erect or spreading, rather slender, hairy at, and near nodes, internodes otherwise glabrous. Racemes 8-18 cm, erect or nodding with spikelets slightly to closely overlapping on slender rachis; pedicels 0.5-1 mm, shortly pubescent. Spikelets 2-4.5 cm, 4-12-flowered. Glumes lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sometimes shortly awned, firm, pilose especially above near margin; lower 6-9 mm, 5-7-nerved, upper 7-11 mm, 7-(9)-nerved. Lemma 9-11.5 mm, 7-nerved, oblong-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, abaxially with short, stiff hairs, adaxially glabrous; awn 10-15 mm. Palea ≤ lemma, oblong, keels stiff-ciliate, apex truncate, shorter-ciliate. Anthers 2.8-3.8 mm. Caryopsis 6-7 × 0.6-1.2 mm. Fig. 13.

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Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.
Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.

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Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.
Bhutan
Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.
United Kingdom

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16cbfa2c-4ca3-47ab-a86f-d5658992d936
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
23 October 2018
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