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Koeleria drucei (Edgar) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson

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Koeleria drucei (Edgar) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson in Barberá et al., Phytoneuron 2019-46: 4 (online) (2019)
Koeleria drucei (Edgar) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson

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(Edgar) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson
Edgar
Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson
2019
4 (online)
ICN
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Koeleria drucei

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drucei

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Dense tufts to 60 cm with culms often much overtopping the densely, very minutely scabrid leaves; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath 2-5-(8) cm, firmly membranous, grey-brown to light greenish brown, sometimes reddish, very densely minutely papillose or minutely scabrid to pubescent, sometimes glabrous. Ligule 0.8-1 mm, truncate, erose, sparsely finely ciliate. Collar sometimes with a few stiff hairs to 1.5 mm. Leaf-blade (3)-12-25-(30) cm × (0.5)-1-4 mm, folded with inrolled margins or flat, hard, dull green or reddish, abaxially scabrid with very dense minute prickle-teeth, or smooth, or sparsely scabrid above, adaxially ribbed with dense fine minute prickle-teeth or minutely densely pubescent on ribs; margins finely scabrid. Culm 10-40 cm, internodes glabrous or finely pubescent above, rarely pilose, or minutely prickle-toothed below panicle. Panicle 5-20 × 1-1.5-(3) cm, lanceolate, with short, inconspicuous branches, ± interrupted, not very dense, rarely more open, but spikelets clustered and individually inconspicuous; rachis, branches, and pedicels very densely minutely strigose or rarely puberulous. Spikelets 6-8 mm, light green often tinged reddish brown. Glumes unequal, membranous, keels with minute prickle-teeth in upper ½; lower c. ¾ length of upper, narrow oblong to narrow ovate, upper ¾ to ≈ spikelet, elliptic-oblong; margins broadly hyaline, sparsely prickle-toothed near acute to acuminate sometimes mucronate tip. Lemma 3.5-6 mm, bidentate or sometimes bicuspid, papillose, minutely prickle-toothed near midnerve; awn 3.5-7.5 mm, recurved, insertion in upper ¼ of lemma. Palea minutely prickle-toothed on keels almost throughout and on margins near tip. Callus hairs to 1 mm. Rachilla hairs to 2 mm. Lodicules 0.8-1.2 mm, glabrous. Anthers 0.8-1.5-(2) mm. Gynoecium: ovary c. 0.8 mm; stigma-styles c. 1.2 mm. Caryopsis 2.5-3 × 0.7-0.8 mm.

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Koeleria drucei (Edgar) Barberá, Quintanar, Soreng, & P.M.Peterson
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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