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Aira praecox L.

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Aira praecox L. (1753)
Aira praecox L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
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Aira praecox L.
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Aira praecox

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praecox

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Aira praecox L.

Small, erect, reddish green or greyish green tufts, 3-20-(25) cm, with spike-like panicles. Leaf-sheath firmly membranous, sparsely ribbed, very minutely scabrid below ligule or entirely smooth. Ligule (0.6)-1.5-3.2 mm, tapered, shortly denticulate, abaxially usually sparsely scabrid. Leaf-blade 0.5-4 cm × 0.3-0.5 mm diam., inrolled, smooth, or abaxially sparsely scabrid on ribs; margins minutely scabrid, tip obtuse. Culm internodes usually densely scabrid below nodes, or smooth throughout. Panicle (0.5)-1-4.5 cm × 3-9 mm, oblong or lanceolate; rachis, short erect branches and pedicels rather sparsely, finely scabrid. Spikelets green, tinged purple. Glumes c. 3 mm, 1-3-nerved, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, often scabrid near tip, keel scabrid, margins minutely ciliate-scabrid. Lemma 2.5-3 mm, ˜ glumes, smooth and firmly membranous in lower ½, densely minutely scabrid towards bifid hyaline apex; awn 3.2-4.2 mm, from lower ⅓ of lemma, column brown, finely twisted. Palea narrower than lemma, keels glabrous, rounded. Callus ringed by minute hairs. Rachilla very short, glabrous, prolonged. Anthers c. 0.3 mm. Caryopsis 1.5-2 ×c. 0.5 mm.

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Aira praecox L.
Aira praecox L.

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Aira praecox L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Aira praecox L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Aira praecox L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Aira praecox L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Aira praecox L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Aira praecox L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Aira praecox L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Aira praecox L.
United Kingdom

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c1684fbb-94a7-4d9f-83d0-6198116cc7a7
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1 January 2000
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