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Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve

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(Godr.) Á.Löve
Godr.
Á.Löve
1980
29: 351
ICN
species
Elytrigia pycnantha

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pycnantha

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Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve

Bluish grey, tufted, rigid perennial, 35-125 cm, sometimes forming large patches from strongly spreading wiry rhizomes. Leaf-sheath glabrous, subcoriaceous, greyish to light brown, auricles 0.5-1-(1.5) mm, submembranous sometimes long hairy. Ligule c. 0.5 mm, scarious. Collar finely hairy. Leaf-blade 5-20 cm, usually tightly inrolled, sometimes flat and up to 7 mm wide, stiff, abaxially smooth, adaxially with prominent close-set scabrid ribs, tip acute, hard, margins scabrid. Culm 25-75 cm, erect, or geniculate below, internodes glabrous. Spike 5-20 × 0.5-1-(2) cm, erect, with spikelets very close-set, but 1-2 lowermost more distant; rachis with a few prickle-teeth on margins. Spikelets 10-20 mm, pale green, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 3-10-flowered, > internodes. Glumes ± equal, disarticulating, 7-12 mm, 5-7-nerved, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or acute, coriaceous and very tough, scabrid on mid-nerve almost throughout or near tip. Lemma 7.5-11 mm, 5-nerved, coriaceous, lanceolate-oblong, keeled above, smooth apart from a few prickle-teeth on keel near tip, obtuse to subacute, often mucronate, rarely with fine straight awn to 7 mm. Palea ≤ lemma, keels finely, closely ciliate-scabrid, glabrous elsewhere except adaxially hairy apex. Callus c. 0.3 mm, glabrous. Rachilla to 1.5 mm, shortly stiff hairy. Lodicules 1.5 mm, triangular, shortly ciliate. Anthers 5-6 mm. Gynoecium: ovary 0.7-1.0 mm; stigma-styles 2.5-3 mm. Caryopsis 4-6 mm; embryo 0.5 mm.

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Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve

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Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Elytrigia pycnantha (Godr.) Á.Löve
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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a4772f11-70f4-4da9-9b7b-5ebe542bc427
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 April 2023
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