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Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder

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Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder in Linder et al., Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 97: 344 (2010)
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder

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New Zealand
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(Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Endl.
N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
2010
344
ICN
species
Austroderia richardii

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richardii

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Very tall, stout tussock with narrow, erect, sharp leaves, and narrow inflorescences. Leaf-sheath glabrous beneath white epicuticular wax. Ligule to 3.5 mm. Collar brown, abaxially glabrous, adaxially with ribs short stiff hairy. Leaf-blade to 2 m × 2.5 cm, stiff, abaxially very scabrid in upper ⅓, adaxially with thick weft of hairs at base becoming fewer up midrib, abundant minute prickle-teeth throughout; margins long (5 mm) hairy below becoming very scabrid. Culm to 2.5 m, internodes glabrous. Inflorescence to 1 m, plumose, stiff, erect to pennant-shaped and drooping; rachis glabrous, branches and pedicels scabrid, long hairs at axils and below spikelet. Spikelets to 25 mm, of 3 florets. Glumes equal, ≥ florets, transparent, acuminate, 1-nerved occasionally shortly 3-nerved; keel scabrid; sometimes long hairy on lower margin. Lemma to 10 mm, scabrid, long (7 mm) hairs radiating from base; lateral lobes to 3 mm; central awn to 15 mm from between lobes. Palea to 6 mm, attenuated, apex hair-tipped, keels ciliate, interkeel and flanks scabrid above. Rachilla to 1 mm, glabrous. Callus hairs to 2 mm. Lodicules to 0.7 mm, hair-fringed. Anthers of ☿ flowers to 4.5 mm, of ♀ flowers to 3 mm. Gynoecium: of ☿ flowers ovary to 1 mm, stigma-styles to 2.5 mm; of ♀ flowers ovary to 1.3 mm, stigma-styles to 4 mm. Caryopsis 3-4 mm; embryo to 1 mm; hilum to 2.0 mm. 2n= 90. Plate 8B.

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Arundo australis A.Rich.
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Arundo kakao Steud.
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Arundo richardii Endl.
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Cortaderia richardii (Endl.) Zotov
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
Gynerium zeelandicum Steud.
Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder

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Austroderia richardii (Endl.) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder
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68392165-f16e-4712-86dc-05873dac6839
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Names_Plants
23 March 2011
31 August 2011
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