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Andropogon virginicus L.

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Andropogon virginicus L. (1753)
Andropogon virginicus L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
ICN
Andropogon virginicus L.
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Andropogon virginicus

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virginicus

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Andropogon virginicus L.

Erect, coarse, perennial tufts, 50-70 cm, light greenish brown, tinged reddish; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath keeled, strongly folded, firmly chartaceous, light green to straw-coloured, glabrous but margins long-villous. Ligule c. 0.5 mm, a ciliolate rim. Leaf-blade 5-20 cm ×c. 2-5 mm, linear, coriaceous, flat or folded, somewhat keeled with prominent midrib, abaxially glabrous, adaxially finely scabrid on ribs and long-villous towards base; margins finely scabrid. Culm c. 25 cm, compressed, internodes glabrous. Inflorescence 25-40 cm, narrow-linear, interrupted; branches slender, erect, subtended by spathe-like leaves and bearing a few spatheate clusters of racemes at apex; upper spathes 3-6 cm, acuminate, tawny. Racemes fragile, c. 2 cm, 2-4 on a very short common peduncle, shorter than and mostly included within spathe; rachis very slender, long-villous. Pedicelled spikelet: usually reduced to villous pedicel, rarely with 1-2 glumes. Sessile spikelet ☿: c. 3 mm, concealed by hairs, lanceolate, pale greenish; glumes very narrow, keels minutely scabrid; lemma of upper floret with very delicate straight awn, 10-15 mm; anthers and caryopsis not seen.

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Andropogon virginicus L.
Andropogon virginicus L.
Andropogon virginicus L.
Andropogon virginicus L.
Andropogon virginicus L.
Andropogon virginicus L.
Andropogon virginicus L.
Andropogon virginicus L.

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Andropogon virginicus L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Andropogon virginicus L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Andropogon virginicus L.
United States

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39d9fb76-ba52-47a4-8053-54035836c65a
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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