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Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar

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Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 34: 22-23 (1996)
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar

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New Zealand
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Edgar
Edgar
1996
22-23
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Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
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Puccinellia raroflorens

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raroflorens

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Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar

Low-growing perennial to 4.5 cm, sometimes forming a loosely woven mat to 2 m diam. or more, usually almost entirely covered by soil, rarely flowering and only the short very narrow dull green curved leaves visible; branching extravaginal. Leaf-sheaths smooth, submembranous, much wider than leafblades, nerves few, distinct; ligule 0.2—0.6 mm, subhyaline, obtuse or truncate; leaf-blades 1-3 cm × 0.2—0.5 mm, setaceous, involute, smooth, subacute, margins minutely scaberulous. Culms entirely enclosed by leaf-sheaths. Panicle rarely present, 10—16 mm long, enclosed by leaf-sheaths for about half its length, overtopped by leaf-blades, bearing up to 12 spikelets, lowermost branches enclosed by leaf-sheaths, smooth, uppermost branches scaberulous. Spikelets 3-4—(4.8) mm, 4-6-flowered, green to brownish green. Glumes unequal, ovate, obtuse, submembranous; lower glume 0.6—1 mm, 1-nerved; upper glume 1.1-1.4 mm, 3-nerved. Lemma 1.8—2.5 mm, 5-nerved, ovate-elliptic, entirely glabrous, midnerve ± reaching subacute tip. Palea ± = lemma, keels scabrous in upper 2/3 Rachilla 0.4-0.5 mm. Anthers 0.4-0.6 mm. Caryopsis 1.2— 1.6 × 0.6-0.7 mm. Endemic.
Gramen perenne humile, tegetem laxam interdum formans, plerumque solo fere omnino amictum, raro florens, nullo modo visibile praeter folia parva, perangusta, obscuroviridia, recurva; Puccinelliae strictae affine foliis setaceis, a qua differt innovationibus extravaginalibus, paniculis inter folia paene celatis, lemmatibusque omnino glabris.

Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar

Low-growing perennial to 4.5 cm, sometimes forming a loosely woven mat to 2 m diam. or more, usually almost entirely covered by soil, rarely flowering and only the short very narrow dull green curved leaves visible; branching extravaginal. Leaf-sheath glabrous, submembranous, much wider than leaf-blade, ribs few, distinct. Ligule 0.2-0.6 mm, subhyaline, obtuse or truncate. Leaf-blade 1-3 cm × 0.2-0.5 mm, setaceous, involute, glabrous, subacute, margins minutely scaberulous. Culm entirely hidden by leaf-sheaths. Panicle rarely present, 10-16 mm, overtopped by leaf-blades, bearing up to 12 spikelets, lowermost branches enclosed by leaf-sheaths, smooth, uppermost branches scaberulous. Spikelets 3-4-(4.8) mm, 4-6-flowered, green to brownish green. Glumes unequal, ovate, obtuse, submembranous; lower 0.6-1 mm, 1-nerved, upper 1.1-1.4 mm, 3-nerved. Lemma 1.8-2.5 mm, 5-nerved, ovate-elliptic, entirely glabrous, midnerve ± reaching subacute apex. Palea ≈ lemma, keels scabrid in upper ⅔. Rachilla 0.4-0.5 mm. Anthers 0.4-0.6 mm. Caryopsis 1.2-1.6 × 0.6-0.7 mm.

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Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar

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Puccinellia raroflorens Edgar
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44848757-2e82-4f5e-a260-bf0155c2f96d
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1 January 2000
30 June 2016
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