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Paspalum dilatatum Poir.

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Paspalum dilatatum Poir. (1804)
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Poir.
Poir.
1804
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Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
species
Paspalum dilatatum

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dilatatum

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Paspalum dilatatum Poir.

Tufted perennials, sometimes forming dense stands, from short, strong rhizomes to c. 1 cm diam. Leaf-sheath rather stiff, lowermost densely long-hairy, others glabrous. Ligule (2)-3-5 mm, entire, rounded. Leaf-blade (6.5)-12.5-18.5-(25) cm × 5.5-8 mm, rather stiff, flat, glabrous apart from a few long hairs on margins and adaxially near ligule, midrib conspicuous; margins scabrid, narrowed above to acuminate tip. Culm 25-55-(180) cm, ± flattened, to 2.5 mm diam., erect or geniculate-ascending and drooping above, nodes glabrous or the lowermost sparsely pubescent, internodes glabrous. Panicle usually nodding, 8-15 cm, with (2)-3-6 often spreading or drooping, rather distant racemes; rachis slender, flattened. Racemes 4.5-6.5-(11) cm; rachis c. 1 mm wide, narrowly winged, scabrid-margined with numerous white hairs at base, bearing 2 rows of paired, shortly pedicelled spikelets; pedicels scabrid. Spikelets c. 3-3.5 mm, closely imbricate, broadly elliptic-ovate, ciliate, acute, green or purplish. Lower glume 0, upper = spikelet, 5-9-nerved, sparsely hairy, margins ciliate, hairs long, silky. Lower floret: lemma ≈ spikelet, 5-9-nerved, glabrous, or margins sometimes sparsely hairy; palea 0. Upper floret: lemma 2.2-2.5 mm, very broadly elliptic to orbicular, crustaceous, faintly 5-nerved, minutely papillose and longitudinally striate, light cream; palea ≈ lemma, incurved, membranous margins widened at base, forming wings enclosing flower; anthers 0.9-1.3 mm, dark purple; stigmas deep reddish purple; caryopsis c. 1.5 mm.

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Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.

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Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
Australia
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
China
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
Cook Islands
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.
Norfolk Island

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1 January 2000
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