Centrolepis ciliata (Hook.f.) Druce

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Name scientific

Centrolepis ciliata (Hook.f.) Druce, Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 4 Suppl.: 614 (1917)

Preferred name

Centrolepis ciliata (Hook.f.) Druce

Taxonomy reference

Ford, K.A. 2014: Centrolepidaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Brownsey, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand — Seed Plants. Fascicle 2. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f.) Druce

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination authors

Druce

Publication place

Druce, G. C. 1917 ("1916"): Nomenclatural Notes: Chiefly African and Australian. Report / Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles for 1916, 4 Suppl.: 601–653.

Year published

1917

Publication page

614

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Gaimardia ciliata Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Centrolepis ciliata

Etymology

From Latin cilium (a short eye-lash-like hair), a reference to hairs on the leaf-sheath

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Centrolepidaceae

Genus

Centrolepis

Species

ciliata

Synonyms

Descriptions

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Centrolepis ciliata (Hook.f.) Druce

Description

Moss-like perennial to 8 cm high, in very broad dense cushions. Leaves to 2.5 cm long, distichous, closely imbricate, setaceous, sheaths with ciliate margins. Flowering stems > leaves. Lowermost glume-like bract with 1-2 pseudanthia and enclosing a short peduncle bearing upper glume and flowers; this peduncle persistent after bracts have fallen.

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Centrolepis ciliata (Hook.f.) Druce

Description

Mosslike, 1–8 cm. high, in very broad cushions often more than 30 cm. across. Roots comparatively thick, c. 0.5 mm. diam. Stems very closely packed. Lvs 0.5–2.5 cm. long, distichous, closely imbricate, setaceous, lamina channelled or terete, tip minutely acicular; sheath with ciliate margins, often produced at the tip into a ligule. Flowering stems > lvs. Glume-like bracts 2, ± equal, minutely papillate, tips inrolled, apparently opp. but the lowermost encloses a short peduncle bearing the upper glume and its fls. Pseudanthia 1–2 in the lower bract, 1–(2) in the upper, each subtended by a hyaline scale. ♂ 1 or 0 in each pseudanthium. ♀ (1)–2 in each pseudanthium; stigmas bright red, not connate at the base. Seed slightly < 1 mm. long, oblong-elliptical, pale yellow, apiculate at each end, one tip very dark.