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Ehrharta erecta Lam.

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Ehrharta erecta Lam., Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] 2, 347 (1786)
Ehrharta erecta Lam.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Lam.
Lam.
1786
347
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Ehrharta erecta Lam.
species
Ehrharta erecta

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erecta

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Ehrharta erecta Lam.

Loosely tufted, soft-leaved, sometimes sprawling perennials (20)-30-80-(140) cm, with rather weak culms sometimes rooting at lower nodes. Leaf-sheath finely striate, glabrous or shortly hairy. Ligule 1-4 mm, glabrous, lacerate. Collar hairs 1-2.0 mm. Leaf-blades 6-16 cm × 2-7.5-(12) mm, flat, rather thin, short, fine sometimes scattered hairs especially near margin, finely nerved but midrib obvious abaxially, margins finely scabrid or hairy, tip acute. Culms (15)-20-70 cm, usually ± procumbent at base and geniculate-ascending above, or erect, internodes glabrous. Inflorescence usually a rather narrowly branched panicle (5)-10-16 cm; branches and pedicels slender, smooth to finely pubescent-scabrid, pedicels finely hairy. Spikelets 3-4 mm, very pale green. Glumes < lemmas, unequal, membranous, ovate, subobtuse, smooth, tip minutely ciliate; lower 1.5-2 mm, 3-5-nerved, upper 2.2-2.7 mm, 5-nerved. Lemmas of Ø florets (2.5)-3-3.5 mm, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, awnless, faintly 5-nerved, glabrous; lower Ø lemma < upper, usually smooth rarely transversely rugose near tip, shining; upper Ø lemma transversely rugose above and with a thick basal hinge-like appendage. Lemma of ☿ floret 2.5-3.2 mm, faintly 7-nerved, subcoriaceous, ovate, obtuse, awnless, glabrous. Palea 2.5 mm, hyaline, glabrous, 2-nerved. Lodicules 0.5-0.7 mm, nerved, glabrous. Stamens 6; anthers 0.7-1.2 mm. Gynoecium: ovary 0.5 mm; stigma-styles 1.5 mm. Caryopsis 2-2.7 ×c. 1 mm.

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Ehrharta erecta Lam.
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
Ehrharta erecta Lam.

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Ehrharta erecta Lam.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Ehrharta erecta Lam.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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58b4304e-a887-4242-91d4-5620d534a94b
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 September 2023
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