Uncinia scabra Boott
Details
Uncinia scabra Boott in Hooker, Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 285 (1853)
Nomenclature
Boott
Boott
1853
285
ICN
Uncinia scabra Boott
species
Uncinia scabra
Classification
Descriptions
Uncinia scabra Boott
2n = 88
Uncinia scabra Boott
Caespitose, harsh, rather rigid, yellow-green, olive-green or dull bluish green. Culms 25–40–(80) cm. tall, us. < 1 mm. diam., erect, strongly scabrid towards the top; basal sheaths dark brown. Lvs 3–6 per culm, > or = culm, 2–3 mm. wide, narrow-linear, moderately scabrid on margins and on upper surface along midvein, tips subacute in shorter lvs, more tapering and filiform in longer lvs. Spikes (3)–4–6–(10) cm. long, bracteate, lowermost glume often broad and lf-like, much > spike, or the midrib greatly extended forming a long filiform awn, female fls c. 10, lax, internodes to 8 mm. long at base of spike, 2–4 mm. long above. Glumes < or = utricles, persistent, obtuse or lowermost subacute, membr., very light brown, the midrib of lower glumes often scabrid. Utricles 4.5–6 × c. 1 mm., plano-convex or subtrigonous, grey-brown, scabrid on both surfaces towards the apex, narrowed above to a beak 1 mm. long and scarcely narrowed below to a greenish stipe 1–1.5 mm. long.
Taxonomic concepts
Uncinia scabra Boott
Uncinia scabra Boott
Uncinia scabra Boott
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 August 2015