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Bromus valdivianus Phil.

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Phil.
1857
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Bromus valdivianus Phil.
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Bromus valdivianus

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valdivianus

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Bromus valdivianus Phil.

Light green, rather slender, perennial tufts, 40-90 cm, with drooping panicles bearing noticeably bicoloured cream and green spikelets. Lower leaf-sheaths rounded, upper sheaths obviously keeled above, very densely villous. Ligule 1.5-2 mm, denticulate, abaxially often with long hairs near base and margins, or scabrid. Leaf-blade 12-22 cm × 3-7 mm, with ± scattered, fine, soft, straight hairs; margins very finely scabrid, tip subobtuse. Culm geniculate at base to erect, internodes glabrous, but slightly pubescent just below nodes. Panicle 12-30 cm, nodding, with slender, finely scabrid branches. Spikelets 1.5-3.5 cm, 5-9-flowered, elliptic-lanceolate to ± oblong, pale cream with noticeably green-tipped lemmas. Glumes very unequal, acute or subacute, with very short, appressed, silvery hairs, hyaline margins minutely scabrid; lower 4-4.5 mm, 3-(5)-nerved, elliptic-lanceolate, upper 6-6.5 mm, 7-nerved, more broadly ovate-lanceolate. Lemma 9.5-10 mm, 7-9-nerved, keeled, very shortly appressed-pubescent throughout, later papillose on basal cream to yellowish green portion, brighter green above, upper ⅓ of nerves reddish or bordered with green, margins and awn often reddish-tinged; awn 4.5-5 mm. Palea ≥ lemma. Callus with extremely minute hairs. Rachilla extremely minutely appressed-pubescent. Anthers 0.7 mm in cleistogamous flowers. Caryopsis 5.8-6.4 × 1.1-1.4 mm.

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Bromus valdivianus Phil.
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
Bromus valdivianus Phil.

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Bromus valdivianus Phil.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Bromus valdivianus Phil.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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818bcfe4-32cd-46aa-b043-3283357659e1
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 April 2024
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