Puccinellia walkeri subsp. antipoda (Petrie) Edgar

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Name scientific

Puccinellia walkeri subsp. antipoda (Petrie) Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 34: 26 (1996)

Preferred name

Puccinellia walkeri subsp. antipoda (Petrie) Edgar

Taxonomy reference

Edgar, E.; Connor, H.E. 2010: Flora of New Zealand Volume V Grasses. Edition 2. Manaaki Whenua Press.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Edgar

Original authors

Petrie

Authors

(Petrie) Edgar

Publication place

Edgar, E. 1996: Puccinellia Parl. (Gramineae: Poeae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 34: 17–32.

Year published

1996

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Atropis antipoda Petrie

Taxonomic rank

subsp.

Canonical form

Puccinellia walkeri subsp. antipoda

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Gramineae

Genus

Puccinellia

Species

walkeri

Synonyms

Descriptions

Edgar, E. 1996: Puccinellia Parl. (Gramineae: Poeae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 34: 17–32.

Puccinellia walkeri subsp. antipoda (Petrie) Edgar

Description

Plants 6.5—25 cm. Leaf-sheaths straw-coloured to light grey-brown or greenish brown. Panicle 2.5—8 × 0.4—1.5 cm, with smooth to sparsely scabrous, sharply acute-angled branches. Lemma with ciliatescabrous, subobtuse tip and slightly excurrent midnerve. Palea keels scabrous in upper ½, excurrent. Endemic.

Edgar, E.; Connor, H. E. 2000: Flora of New Zealand Vol. V. Gramineae. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand.

Puccinellia walkeri subsp. antipoda (Petrie) Edgar

Description

Plants 6.5-25 cm. Leaf-sheath straw-coloured to light grey-brown or greenish brown. Panicle 2.5-8 × 0.4-1.5 cm; branches smooth to sparsely scabrid, sharply acute-angled. Lemma apex ciliate-scabrid, subobtuse, midnerve slightly excurrent. Palea keels scabrid in upper ½, excurrent.