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Phalaris arundinacea L.

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Phalaris arundinacea L. (1753)
Phalaris arundinacea L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
ICN
Phalaris arundinacea L.
species
Phalaris arundinacea

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arundinacea

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Phalaris arundinacea L.

Robust perennials, 60-200 cm, with long-creeping rhizomes. Leaf-sheath chartaceous, glabrous, striate, light brown. Ligule 2.5-7.5-(10) mm, entire, but soon lacerate. Leaf-blade 20-40 cm × 8-20 mm, ribs numerous, fine, adaxially smooth but scabrid near tip, abaxially with strong midrib near base, ribs densely, minutely scabrid; margins minutely scabrid, long-narrowed to scabrid, acute tip. Culm 50-180 cm. Panicle 9-30 × 1.5-4 cm, lanceolate or oblong, lobed below; rachis smooth below, scabrid above, branches scabrid, spreading at anthesis. Spikelets 4-5.5 mm, pale green or purplish. Glumes ± equal, 3-nerved, lanceolate, keeled but not winged, acute to acuminate, minutely scabrid, rarely lower glume with minute hairs near margin. Ø florets: lemmas equal, 1.3-1.6 mm, narrow, short-hairy. ☿ floret: lemma 3-4 mm, broadly keeled, lanceolate, acute, firm and shining below, short-hairy above; palea much narrower than lemma; anthers (2)-2.5-3.2 mm; caryopsis c. 2 × 1 mm.

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Phalaris arundinacea L.
Phalaris arundinacea L.
Phalaris arundinacea L.
Phalaris arundinacea L.
Phalaris arundinacea L.
Phalaris arundinacea L.
Phalaris arundinacea L.
Phalaris arundinacea L.

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Phalaris arundinacea L.
New Zealand
Phalaris arundinacea L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Phalaris arundinacea L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Phalaris arundinacea L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Phalaris arundinacea L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Phalaris arundinacea L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Phalaris arundinacea L.
United Kingdom

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a1211dc6-a166-42c5-8efb-10d211f58157
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1 January 2000
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