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Phleum pratense L.

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Phleum pratense L. (1753)
Phleum pratense L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
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Phleum pratense L.
species
Phleum pratense

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pratense

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Phleum pratense L.

Loose or dense tufts to 1 m. Leaf-sheath subcoriaceous, rounded, open, striate, glabrous, green to dark brown at base. Ligule 1-2.5-(4) mm, membranous, truncate or slightly rounded. Leaf-blade 9-17.5-(25) cm × 3-4.5 mm, flat, narrowed to finely pointed tip, striate, minutely scabrid throughout or only towards tip; margins minutely scabrid. Culm (30)-60-85 cm, erect or ascending from geniculate base, usually stout, internodes smooth, or finely scabrid below panicle; basal nodes sometimes swollen and tuberous. Panicle (4)-12-23 cm × 6-9 mm, dense, spike-like, cylindric, green, greyish green or purplish; rachis very stout, with scattered fine hairs concealed beneath spikelets, pedicels very short. Spikelets 2.5-3.5 mm, tightly packed. Glumes (3)-3.5-5 mm, oblong, truncate, 3-nerved, membranous, covered with short fine hairs, margin of lower glume softly hairy; keel stout, with large stiff hairs, and produced to a short scabrid awn (0.8)-1-1.5 mm. Lemma 1.5-2.5-(3) mm, 5-7-nerved, membranous, broadly oblong, obtuse, minutely hairy. Palea (1.2)-1.5-2-(2.5) mm. Lodicules 0.4-0.6 mm. Anthers 1.3-2.2 mm. Caryopsis slightly > 1 mm.

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Phleum pratense L.
Phleum pratense L.

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Phleum pratense L.
France
Phleum pratense L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Phleum pratense L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Phleum pratense L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Phleum pratense L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Phleum pratense L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Phleum pratense L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Phleum pratense L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Phleum pratense L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Phleum pratense L.
United Kingdom

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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