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Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama

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Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 69: 62 (1956)
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Nees) T.Koyama
Nees
T.Koyama
1956
62
ICN
species
Machaerina arthrophylla

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arthrophylla

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Rhizome c. 3 mm. diam., hard and woody, covered with very loose bracts. Culms 50–120 cm. × 1–2 mm., terete. Lowermost lvs reduced to sheathing bracts, light brown; upper lvs 1–3, terete like the stems, internally septate, tips acute. Panicle 10–40 cm. long, rounded at the tip, interrupted, branchlets drooping, in distant fascicles, the lowermost often remote, the stoutest lateral branchlet arising from lowest spathaceous bract < 1 mm. diam., us. only c. 0.5 mm. diam.; bracts large, membr., acuminate, spathaceous, light greenish brown. Spikelets , 3–3.5–(4.5) mm. long, approximate and rather evenly distributed along the branchlets, brown, 2–4-fld, us. only 2 lowest fls fertile. Glumes 4–7, ovate, acute, or acuminate, membr., pale brown below, red towards the tip and scabrid; margins ciliate. Nut 2–2.5 × c. 1 mm., oblong, trigonous, smooth, whitish, beak small.

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Baumea arthrophylla (Nees) Boeck.
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Baumea huttonii (Kirk) S.T.Blake
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Chapelliera arthrophylla Nees
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Cladium arthrophyllum (Nees) Boeck.
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Cladium huttonii Kirk
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Gahnia arthrophylla (Nees) F.Muell
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Machaerina huttonii (Kirk) T.Koyama
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
Mariscus arthrophyllus (Nees) Kuntze
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama

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Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama
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19 October 2007
31 August 2012
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