Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is foreign
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss. (1842)
Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Boiss.
Boiss.
1842
ICN
Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.
species
Anthoxanthum aristatum

Click to collapse Classification Info

aristatum

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.

Annuals, 9-20 cm, with culms often much-branched near base, faintly coumarin-scented. Leaf-sheath submembranous, strongly ribbed, sometimes sparsely villous above. Collar hairs long, in small lateral tufts. Ligule 0.7-2 mm, glabrous, tapering, becoming erose. Leaf-blade 1-5.5 cm × 1-2.5 mm, thin, scabrid, sometimes sparsely hairy, tip narrow, subacute. Culm erect or spreading, branched, almost filiform, internodes glabrous. Panicle 1.5-2.4 × 0.5-1.2 cm, ovate- or lanceolate-oblong, rather lax or more dense, with few to numerous spikelets; rachis glabrous, branches and pedicels very short, scabrid or minutely hairy. Spikelets 5.5-7 mm, green or brownish green. Glumes glabrous, acute to acuminate, keels green, thickened, sparsely scabrid; lower ½-⅔ length of upper, 1-nerved, ovate, upper > florets and enclosing them, 3-nerved, elliptic-ovate. Ø florets: lemma 2.6-3.5 mm, 4-5-nerved, oblong, firmer and brown below with rather stiff silky hairs, apex glabrous, hyaline, bilobed, or entire and shortly toothed; awn of lower floret 3.6-4.6 mm, fine, ± straight, inserted above midpoint, awn of second floret 7-8.8 mm, stouter, geniculate, inserted near base, dark brown in lower ½, projecting beyond spikelet; palea 0 in both florets. ☿ floret: lemma 1.5-1.8 mm, 5-nerved, firmly membranous, orbicular, brown, shining, glabrous; palea = lemma; anthers c. 3 mm; caryopsis 1.1-1.3 × 0.6-0.7 mm.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.
Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.

Click to collapse Collections Info

Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

Click to collapse Metadata Info

d2d5b1c6-b954-4826-b519-921cc70435b9
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 March 2007
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top