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Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.

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Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv. (1812)
Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(L.) P.Beauv.
L.
P.Beauv.
1812
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Brachypodium pinnatum

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pinnatum

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Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.

Tufted perennials 30-65 cm, spreading by wiry, scale-covered rhizomes. Leaf-sheath rounded, glabrous or with long fine hairs, shortly pubescent at junction with leaf-blade. Ligule 1.4-1.6 mm, truncate, minutely ciliate. Leaf-blade 10-15 cm, c. 3.5 mm wide if flat, or inrolled and 1-1.5 mm diam., rather stiff, finely pointed, abaxially finely scabrid, adaxially with a few scattered hairs; margins finely scabrid. Culm erect, stiff, minutely hairy at, and near nodes, internodes otherwise glabrous. Raceme (3)-6-12 cm, spike-like, with spikelets partly overlapping and often projecting outwards; pedicels minutely pubescent, c. 1 mm. Spikelets 2-3 cm, 7-16-flowered. Glumes linear-lanceolate, acute, firm, glabrous; lower 4-4.6 mm, 3-5-nerved, upper c. 6 mm, 5-7-nerved. Lemma 8-8.5 mm, 5-7-nerved, oblong-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, abaxially smooth, or scabrid on nerves near apex, adaxially scabrid or with minute hairs just below awn base; awn 3.5-4.5 mm. Palea ≈ lemma, oblong, slightly emarginate to obtuse, keels and apex ciliate. Anthers 3.5-5 mm. Caryopsis not seen.

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Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.
Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.

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Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.
United Kingdom

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187338d3-cf13-42fe-8a58-8d6778748707
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1 January 2000
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