Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
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Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 23: 401 (1890 [1891])
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
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Petrie
Petrie
1890
1891
401
chapmani
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Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
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Deschampsia chapmanii
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Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
2n = 26
2n = 28
2n = 26
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Slender, erect, smooth, glabrous, leafy tufts, often stoloniferous and forming swards, 5-35-(55) cm, with delicate shining panicles. Leaf-sheath membranous, broader than leaf-blade, distinctly ribbed, midrib more prominent, lower sheaths usually reddish brown, sometimes light greyish, upper sheaths light green. Ligule (0.5)-2-4.5-(7) mm, tapering to acuminate tip. Leaf-blade 1-8 cm × 0.3-0.7-(1) mm, involute to ± flat, often filiform, sometimes disarticulating at ligule, glabrous; margins minutely scabrid, tip acute. Culm erect or ascending, branched at base. Panicle (1.5)-2-14 cm, slender, lax; branches filiform, erect to later spreading, smooth to minutely scaberulous, tipped by few spikelets. Spikelets 2.2-4.5 mm, green to brown, sometimes purplish. Glumes unequal, < spikelet, keel sometimes minutely scabrid near tip, and margins minutely ciliate-scabrid; lower 1-2 mm, 1-nerved, narrow-lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, acute, upper 1.5-2.7 mm, 3-nerved, elliptic-ovate to ovate, subacute to subobtuse. Lemma 1.4-2.2 mm, ovate-oblong, hyaline, irregularly 3-5-toothed, sometimes minutely mucronate or with a minute subterminal awn to 1 mm. Palea narrower than lemma, keels sparsely ciliate-scabrid or glabrous. Callus hairs c. 0.1 mm. Rachilla glabrous, rarely with one or two minute (c. 0.1 mm) hairs. Anthers 0.2-0.6-(0.7) mm. Caryopsis 0.8-1 × 0.3-0.4 mm. 2n= 26.
Taxonomic concepts
Catabrosa antarctica Hook.f.
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Deschampsia hookeri Kirk
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Deschampsia novae-zelandiae Petrie
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Sieglingia antarctica (Hook.f.) Kuntze
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
Triodia antarctica (Hook.f.) Benth.
Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie
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1 January 2000
30 April 2004