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Holcus lanatus L.

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Holcus lanatus L. (1753)
Holcus lanatus L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
1048
ICN
Holcus lanatus L.
species
Holcus lanatus

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lanatus

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Holcus lanatus L.

Tufted, sometimes stoloniferous, softly hairy, greyish green perennials, 35-110 cm. Leaf-sheath firmly membranous, striate, ± keeled above near ligule, villous with long, fine, silky hairs, basal sheaths often purplish. Ligule (0.6)-1-3 mm, ± truncate, denticulate, apex finely ciliate and occasionally with a few long hairs, abaxially villous. Leaf-blade (2.5)-4.5-15-(20) cm × (1.5)-3-10 mm, pubescent and with longer soft hairs, narrowed to acuminate tip; margins finely ciliate, and with longer hairs. Culm erect, or ascending from geniculate base, nodes and internodes pubescent. Panicle 4-18 × 1.5-7 cm, lanceolate, ovoid or sometimes oblong, dense to lax, erect or nodding; rachis and branches pubescent. Spikelets 3.8-5.5 mm, whitish, pale green, or purplish. Glumes stiff-ciliate on keels and lateral nerves of upper glume, elsewhere minutely scabrid to shortly pubescent; lower sometimes slightly shorter, narrow-lanceolate, acute to mucronate, upper broader, elliptic, mucronate, or awned to 0.8 mm. Lemma 2-2.7 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous, shining, keel sparsely finely prickle-toothed, apex minutely ciliate-scabrid; lower lemma awnless, upper lemma narrower, awn stout, 1.4-2.8 mm, inserted c. 0.4 mm below tip of lemma, becoming recurved and uncinate. Palea keels sparsely short-ciliate above, apex obtusely lobed, minutely ciliate. Callus hairs few, to 1 mm. Rachilla glabrous. Anthers 1-2.2 mm. Caryopsis 1-1.5 × 0.4-0.5 mm.

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Holcus lanatus L.
Holcus lanatus L.
Holcus lanatus L.
Holcus lanatus L.
Holcus lanatus L.

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Holcus lanatus L.
[Not available]
Holcus lanatus L.
France
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Holcus lanatus L.
United Kingdom

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4dc776ad-5925-4e3f-97f8-11bbb6fa4462
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1 January 2000
16 May 2023
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