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Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.

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Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv. (1812)
Setaria viridis (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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Setaria viridis

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viridis

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Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.

Loosely tufted annuals, (4)-30-70 cm. Leaf-sheath light green or yellowish, submembranous, rounded, to slightly keeled above, glabrous, but margins ciliate. Ligule ciliate, hairs 0.7-1.5 mm. Collar hairs few, long. Leaf-blade 6-10.5-(13.5) cm × 3-5 mm, flat, long-tapering, very soft, minutely scabrid; margins minutely scabrid, tip filiform. Culm (10)-25-45-(60) cm, internodes ridged, scabrid above on ridges. Panicle 3-10 cm × 5-20 mm, very dense, cylindric, tapering above, with very light green or purplish bristles; rachis densely pilose, with short minutely pubescent-scabrid branches, bearing clusters of spikelets on very short discoid-tipped pedicels, each spikelet subtended by 1-3 antrorsely scabrid bristles (4.5-9.5 mm). Spikelets (2)-2.3-3.2 mm, light green, falling entire at maturity. Lower glume 1-3-nerved, c. 1.2-1.7 mm, upper 5-nerved, = spikelet, covering the upper ☿ floret. Lower floret: lemma = spikelet, 5-7-nerved; palea hyaline, nerveless, to ½ length of lemma. Upper floret: lemma = spikelet, elliptic-oblong, subacute or obtuse, pale creamy, convex, thinly crustaceous, very finely rugose; palea of same texture as lemma, nerves faint, interkeel flat; anthers 0.5-0.9 mm; caryopsis c. 1.5 mm.

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Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.
Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.

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Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.
United Kingdom

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240b7266-1c9e-4fbb-b927-339a95f59abd
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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