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Cynosurus cristatus L.

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Cynosurus cristatus L., Sp. Pl. 72 (1753)
Cynosurus cristatus L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
72
ICN
Cynosurus cristatus L.
species
Cynosurus cristatus

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cristatus

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Cynosurus cristatus L.

Compactly tufted perennials, 10-75-(85) cm. Leaf-sheath sub-coriaceous, smooth below, minutely scabrid and keeled above near ligule. Ligule 0.4-1.8 mm, truncate, erose to ciliate. Leaf-blade (2.5)-7-24 cm × 1-4 mm, glabrous, or adaxially with minute prickle-teeth or hairs; margins glabrous, narrowed to long, scabrid, acuminate tip. Culm 2-70 cm, erect, internodes glabrous. Panicle 2-10-(15) cm, to 12 mm wide but usually quite narrow, secund, linear, spike-like, stiff, narrow-oblong, erect or slightly curved; rachis and very short branches with minute prickle-teeth or hairs. ☿ and Ø spikelets mixed together in dense clusters, green to purplish; occasionally proliferous: Ø spikelets 3.3-5.5 mm, persistent, ovate, flattened, of 7-10 acute to acuminate narrow bracts, 2.5-3.8 mm, 1-nerved, scabrid on nerve, margins hyaline; ☿ spikelets 4-6 mm, 2-5-flowered, elliptic-oblong. Glumes persistent, ± equal, 3-4 mm, 1-nerved, hyaline, midnerve scabrid above. Lemma 3-4 mm, faintly 5-nerved, scabrid above, subcoriaceous with very narrow hyaline margin; awn minute, 0.4-1 mm. Palea 2.5-3.5 mm, hyaline, keels minutely scabrid, interkeel papillose. Anthers 1-2.5 mm, purple or yellow. Caryopsis 1.4-2 × 0.6-0.7 mm.

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Cynosurus cristatus L.
Cynosurus cristatus L.

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Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Cynosurus cristatus L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cynosurus cristatus L.
United Kingdom

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1 January 2000
20 November 2013
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