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Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius

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Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius (1762)
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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P.J.Bergius
P.J.Bergius
1762
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Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
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Paspalum conjugatum

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conjugatum

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Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius

Strongly stoloniferous perennials with erect or sprawling shoots; stolons often with purple internodes. Leaf-sheath rather stiff, keeled, glabrous. Ligule 0.5-1.5 mm, slightly erose, truncate, narrowed centrally to a point. Collar hairs few, long. Leaf-blade 10-20 cm × 6-9 mm, linear-lanceolate, flat, soft, glabrous apart from long hairs near base, narrowed to acute or acuminate tip. Culm 20-45 cm, erect or ascending, slender, wiry, internodes compressed, glabrous. Panicle of 2-(3) widely divaricating slender racemes ± digitate at culm apex. Racemes 6-10 cm, rachis very narrowly-winged, 3-angled, sparsely scabrid, 0.6-0.8 mm wide, densely pubescent at base, bearing 2 rows of single shortly pedicelled spikelets; pedicels smooth. Spikelets c. 1.5 mm, imbricate, broad-elliptic to almost orbicular, acute, yellowish green. Lower glume 0, upper = spikelet, thin and closely appressed to upper floret, 2- or 3-nerved with median nerve often suppressed, glabrous apart from long fine hairs on lateral nerves. Lower floret: lemma = spikelet, similar in texture to upper glume; palea 0. Upper floret: lemma 1.2-1.4 mm, slightly indurated, 3-nerved; palea slightly narrower than lemma, membranous margins only slightly widened at base; anthers c. 0.5 mm, yellow; caryopsis not seen.

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Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius

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Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
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Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Cook Islands
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Cook Islands
Palmerston
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Cook Islands
Rakahanga
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Fiji
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
France
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
French Polynesia
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Micronesia, Federated States Of
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Niue
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Samoa
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Tonga
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
United Kingdom
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
United States
Paspalum conjugatum P.J.Bergius
Vanuatu

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1 January 2000
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