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Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan

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Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan, Bull. New Zealand Dept. Sci. Industr. Res. 49. 157 (1936)
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(Kirk) Allan
Kirk
Allan
1936
157
ICN
species
Puccinellia walkeri

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walkeri

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Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan

Erect, bluish green or light green to pale brownish green, stiff, dense, very leafy tufts, (6)-10-50 cm, with uppermost leaves usually overtopping culms; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheaths smooth, firmly membranous, finely nerved; ligule 0.6-3 mm, obtuse or truncate, or sometimes tapered at centre and acute, smooth, entire; leaf-blades 5-25 cm long, folded and then 5—10 mm wide, or sometimes almost flat, abaxially smooth, adaxially shallowly ridged and sparsely scabrous on ridges, margins scabrous, tip smooth, ± firmly acute, sometimes subobtuse and ± apiculate. Culms smooth, usually enclosed by sheaths. Panicle ± overtopped by leaves, linear-lanceolate, erect, contracted, dense; branches stiff, erect, sometimes ± spreading at maturity. Spikelets (3)-5— 9 mm, 2—5-flowered, bluish green or sometimes purplish. Glumes ± unequal, narrow-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, subacute; lower glume 1.5—3.6-(4.2) mm, 1—3-nerved; upper glume 2-4.5—(5) mm, 3—5- nerved. Lemma 3—5 mm, 5—7-nerved, elliptic-oblong, usually with a few hairs at base and on nerves near base, sometimes with hairs on nerves to c. ½ way. Palea < or occasionally = lemma. Rachilla 0.8- 1.5-(1.8)mm. Anthers (0.6)-0.8-1.5 mm. Caryopsis (1.5)-1.8-2.6 × 0.4-0.8 mm. Endemic.

Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan

Erect, bluish green or light green to pale brownish green, stiff, dense, very leafy tufts, (6)-10-50 cm, with uppermost leaves usually overtopping culms; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath glabrous, firmly membranous, striate. Ligule 0.6-3 mm, obtuse or truncate, or sometimes tapered centrally and acute, glabrous, entire. Leaf-blade 5-25 cm × 5-10 mm, folded, or sometimes almost flat and wider, abaxially glabrous, adaxially shallowly ribbed, ribs sparsely scabrid; margins scabrid, tip smooth, ± firmly acute, sometimes subobtuse and ± apiculate. Culm usually hidden by sheaths, internodes glabrous. Panicle ± overtopped by leaves, linear-lanceolate, erect, contracted, dense; branches stiff, erect, sometimes ± spreading at maturity. Spikelets (3)-5-9 mm, 2-5-flowered, bluish green or sometimes purplish. Glumes ± unequal, narrow-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, subacute; lower 1.5-3.6-(4.2) mm, 1-3-nerved, upper 2-4.5-(5) mm, 3-5-nerved. Lemma 3-5 mm, 5-7-nerved, elliptic-oblong, usually with a few hairs at base and on nerves near base or to c. midway. Palea ≤ lemma. Rachilla 0.8-1.5-(1.8) mm. Anthers (0.6)-0.8-1.5 mm. Caryopsis (1.5)-1.8-2.6 × 0.4-0.8 mm.

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Puccinellia novae-zealandiae (Petrie) Allan & Jansen
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan

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Puccinellia walkeri (Kirk) Allan
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81ed2413-1538-44fa-bec6-4532eb575515
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 June 2016
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