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Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski

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Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski, Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. Series 1. Flora i Sistematika Vyssikh Rastenii. Acta Instituti Botanici Academiae Scientiarum URPSS 1: 14 (1933)
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(L.) Nevski
L.
Nevski
1933
1: 14
ICN
species
Elytrigia repens

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repens

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Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski

Perennial, 30-150-(200) cm, forming dull green, sometimes bluish green tufts from long-creeping rhizomes. Leaf-sheath glabrous or with ± scattered fine hairs, firmly membranous, light brown to light green. Auricles to 2 mm very fine, membranous. Ligule rim-like, 0.25-0.5 mm, scarious at tip. Leaf-blade 15-40 cm × (2)-3-10 mm, flat, soft to rather stiff, abaxially smooth or sparsely scabrid above, adaxially with slender inconspicuous ribs, usually sparsely long hairy, or glabrous, linear, ± abruptly narrowed to acute tip, margins white, prickle-toothed. Culm 20-150 cm, erect or geniculate below, internodes glabrous. Spike (5)-10-30 × 0.5-1.5 cm, erect, spikelets very close-set or sometimes more distant below; rachis scabrid on margins, otherwise smooth or sometimes abundantly softly hairy. Spikelets 10-20 mm, green or sometimes bluish green, oblong-elliptic or wedge-shaped, 3-8-flowered. Glumes ± equal, 7-12 mm, 5-7-nerved, lanceolate, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, scabrid on midnerve near tip, adaxially with many small white hairs. Lemma 8-13 mm, 5-nerved, coriaceous, rounded to ± keeled above, abaxially glabrous, adaxially clothed in small white hairs, awnless, mucronate or awned to 8 mm. Palea ≤ lemma, keels scabrid, apex entire, ciliate, flank margins wide, membranous ± contiguous, interkeel glabrous, adaxially clothed in short white hairs. Callus 0.2-0.3 mm, shortly bearded. Rachilla to 1.25 mm, shortly hairy. Lodicules to 1.6 mm, shortly ciliate, > ovary. Anthers 3.5-6 mm. Gynoecium: ovary 0.5-0.7 mm; stigma-styles 2.5-3.0 mm. Caryopsis 3.5-5.5 mm; embryo 1-1.25 mm; hilum = caryopsis.

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Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
United Kingdom

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1 January 2000
6 March 2007
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