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Lagurus ovatus L.

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Lagurus ovatus L. (1753)
Lagurus ovatus L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
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Lagurus ovatus L.
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Lagurus ovatus

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ovatus

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Lagurus ovatus L.

Softly hairy, erect, tufted annuals, 6-80 cm, with velvety greyish green leaves and erect to nodding, soft, silky, rounded panicles. Leaf-sheath densely pubescent, rounded, firmly membranous, distinctly ribbed; uppermost sheath ± inflated. Ligule 1.4-2.6 mm, membranous, truncate, abaxially densely pubescent. Leaf-blade (2)-4-17 cm × (2)-4-9 mm, flat, soft, densely pubescent, linear-lanceolate, tapered to acuminate tip. Culm slender, erect or ascending, simple or branched near base, internodes minutely pubescent. Panicle 1.5-7.5 × 1.6-4.5 cm, pale silvery green to cream, sometimes purplish, dense, ovoid to cylindric or globose, with numerous, soft, projecting bristles; rachis and very short branches hidden among spikelets, sparsely hairy. Spikelets 7-10 mm, 1-flowered, laterally compressed, subsessile; disarticulation above glumes; rachilla prolonged, hairy. Glumes equalling spikelet, 1-nerved, membranous, narrow-lanceolate, tapering to a fine bristle, covered throughout with long, fine silky hairs. Lemma ≈ glumes, 5-nerved, membranous, rounded, 4-5.6 mm, elliptic, hairy below, much narrowed above and narrowly diverging into 2 apical, fine, straight, minutely scabrid bristles 2-6 mm; awn dorsal, arising from upper ⅓ of lemma, 13-22 mm, somewhat geniculate near base, often purplish. Palea ≈ lemma and much narrower, 2-nerved. Lodicules 2, hyaline. Stamens 3; anthers 1.4-2.7 mm. Ovary glabrous, styles short. Caryopsis 1.6-2.6 × (0.3)-0.5-0.7 mm; embryo small; hilum short; endosperm liquid. Plate 3A.

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Lagurus ovatus L.
Lagurus ovatus L.

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Lagurus ovatus L.
Australia
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Lagurus ovatus L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Lagurus ovatus L.
United Kingdom

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19704cd0-e167-49a7-bf60-e45d2b90d975
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1 January 2000
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