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Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves

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Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves, Candollea 3: 284 (1927)
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Spreng.) St.-Yves
Spreng.
St.-Yves
1927
3: 284
ICN
species
Poa billardierei

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billardierei

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Dense, very stiff, rhizomatous tussocks, to 100 cm, with pungent leaves usually overtopping culms. Leaf-sheath light brown to grey-brown, coriaceous, striate, glabrous. Ligule 0.7-1 mm, asymmetrical, stiffly membranous, ciliate. Leaf-blade 10-60 cm ×c. 1 mm diam., inrolled, wiry, abaxially glabrous, adaxially densely minutely pubescent. Culm (8)-12-50 cm, erect, internodes glabrous. Panicle (3.5)-6-25 cm, stiff, erect, contracted, almost spike-like; rachis glabrous, branches erect, pedicels with dense stiff minute hairs and prickle-teeth. Spikelets 9-16 mm, 3-6-flowered, greenish brown. Glumes almost equal, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, minutely prickle-toothed above, densely prickle-toothed on keel; lower 5.5-10 mm, (3)-5-nerved, upper 6.5-11 mm, 3-(5)-nerved; margins finely prickle-toothed. Lemma 6-11.5 mm, 5-7-(9)-nerved, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or with shortly excurrent midnerve, ± covered with very dense, stiff prickle-teeth, often minutely hairy on nerves below. Palea 5-8 mm, subcoriaceous, keels very densely, short, stiff hairy, interkeel and flanks minutely prickle-toothed. Lodicules c. 1.5 mm, bilobed, ciliate. Callus ringed by short, stiff hairs. Rachilla sparsely to densely hairy especially near apex. Anthers (1.5)-2-3 mm. Gynoecium: ovary c. 2 mm; stigma-styles c. 3 mm. Caryopsis 2.5-4 ×c. 1 mm. 2n= 28. Plate 5B.

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Arundo triodioides Trin.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Arundo triodioides Trin.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Austrofestuca littoralis (Labill.) E.B.Alexeev
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Festuca littoralis Labill.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Festuca littoralis Labill.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa triodioides (Trin.) Zotov
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Poa triodioides (Trin.) Zotov
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Schedonorus billardiereanus Nees
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Schedonorus billardiereanus Nees
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Schedonorus littoralis (Labill.) P.Beauv.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Schedonorus littoralis (Labill.) P.Beauv.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Schedonorus littoralis var. β minor Hook.f.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Schedonorus littoralis var. β minor Hook.f.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Triodia billardierei Spreng.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
Triodia billardierei Spreng.
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves

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Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
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Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
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Eastern
Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves
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Ruahine-Cook

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15 February 2007
4 October 2010
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