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Koeleria arduana (Edgar & A.P.Druce) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson

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Koeleria arduana (Edgar & A.P.Druce) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson, Phytoneuron 2019-46: 4 (online) (2019)
Koeleria arduana (Edgar & A.P.Druce) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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New Zealand
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(Edgar & A.P.Druce) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson
Edgar & A.P.Druce
Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson
2019
4 (online)
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Koeleria arduana

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arduana

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Open tufts to 60 cm, erect or often drooping, with slender pale yellow-green to glaucous leaves and whitish open panicles; branching extravaginal. Leaf-sheath to 6 cm, glabrous, or with fine, very minute prickle-teeth, to minutely puberulous. Collar hairs few, long. Ligule 0.2-0.3 mm, truncate, slightly erose, glabrous, or rarely sparsely minutely ciliate. Leaf-blade 10-20-(30) cm × 0.5-1.5-(4) mm, usually narrow and inrolled, sometimes flat, abaxially smooth or with sparse to dense prickle-teeth towards tip, rarely throughout, adaxially ± shallowly ribbed, sparsely minutely prickle-toothed or sparsely pubescent on ribs; margins minutely prickle-toothed. Culm 6-35 cm, internodes glabrous, occasionally with a few short hairs above basal nodes, sometimes with a few minute prickle-teeth below panicle. Panicle (3)-8-18-(27) × 0.7-3.5-(5) cm, oblong-lanceolate, becoming lax with spreading branches but spikelets clustered and individually inconspicuous; rachis, branches, and pedicels with sparse to dense fine prickle-teeth, or rachis smooth below. Spikelets (4.5)-5-7-(7.5) mm, whitish or pale straw-coloured, sometimes purple-tinged. Glumes unequal, hyaline, keels minutely prickle-toothed in upper ½; lower ⅔-⅘ length of upper, linear-lanceolate, upper slightly < spikelet, elliptic-lanceolate; margins entire, or with a few minute prickle-teeth near acuminate tip. Lemma 4.5-6 mm, bicuspid, papillose; awn 3.5-8 mm, straight to later recurved, insertion in upper ¼ of lemma. Palea with minute prickle-teeth on keels and rarely on margins. Callus hairs to 0.5 mm. Rachilla hairs to 2 mm. Lodicules to 1 mm, glabrous. Anthers 1.2-2 mm. Gynoecium: ovary to 1 mm; stigma-styles to 1.3 mm. Caryopsis c. 2.6 × 0.6 mm.

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Koeleria arduana (Edgar & A.P.Druce) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson
Koeleria arduana (Edgar & A.P.Druce) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson
Koeleria arduana (Edgar & A.P.Druce) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson
Trisetum arduanum Edgar & A.P.Druce
Koeleria arduana (Edgar & A.P.Druce) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson

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New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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10 March 2024
10 March 2024
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