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Panicum schinzii Hack.

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Panicum schinzii Hack. (1888)
Panicum schinzii Hack.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Hack.
Hack.
1888
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Panicum schinzii Hack.
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Panicum schinzii

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schinzii

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Panicum schinzii Hack.

Strong, erect, glabrous, light or dull green to purplish annuals, to 120 cm, in diffuse tufts with stems much branched near base. Leaf-sheath submembranous, rounded, somewhat keeled above, glabrous. Ligule a membranous rim c. 0.5 mm, tipped by a ciliate fringe usually c. 1 mm. Leaf-blade 8-20 cm × 4-8 mm, long-tapering, glabrous, firm, midrib prominent; margins sometimes undulate below, tip acuminate. Culm (20)-35-80-(100) cm, terete or compressed, nodes brownish, internodes glabrous. Panicle 15-35 cm, very lax, branches later widely spreading; rachis and branches smooth, branchlets and pedicels finer, minutely scabrid on angles. Spikelets 2.2-2.7 mm, glabrous, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, rather dull. Glumes very unequal; lower 0.6-1 mm, clasping spikelet base, truncate, sometimes with a central subacute tip, upper = spikelet, (7)-9-11-nerved, elliptic, subacute. Lower floret ♂: lemma 9-nerved; palea narrower, narrowly winged above, 2-keeled, keels glabrous; anthers 1-1.8 mm. Upper floret ☿: lemma 1.8-2 mm, elliptic, subacute, faintly striolate, glabrous, shining, light cream; palea narrower; anthers 1.2-1.6 mm; caryopsis c. 1.5-2 × 1 mm.

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Panicum schinzii Hack.
Panicum schinzii Hack.

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Panicum schinzii Hack.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Panicum schinzii Hack.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Panicum schinzii Hack.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Panicum schinzii Hack.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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3bb60f96-7731-48f6-9314-b92238a64fc6
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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