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Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum (Parl.) Thell.

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Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum (Parl.) Thell.
Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum (Parl.) Thell.

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New Zealand
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(Parl.) Thell.
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Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum

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Closely tufted, glaucous annuals, 7.5-40-(85) cm. Leaf-sheath green or straw-coloured, without auricles, lower covered with short, soft, horizontally spreading hairs, upper glabrous, the uppermost ± inflated. Ligule 0.2-0.6 mm, truncate, erose to ciliate. Leaf-blade 2-7-(14) cm × 1.5-2.5-(3.5) mm, flat, narrowed to acute tip, margins minutely scabrid, pilose or abaxially sometimes less densely hairy to ± glabrous. Culm 5-35-(80) cm, often decumbent, internodes glabrous. Raceme erect, glaucous, dense-flowered, ± oblong, 2-6 × 1-2 cm; rachis fragile but not disarticulating readily, margins finely ciliate. Central ☿ spikelet sessile; lateral spikelets Ø, on slender pedicels 0.5-1 mm. Glumes of all spikelets ± equal, 10-15 mm, scabrid, awn-like, glumes of lateral spikelets overtopping lemma awns, inner occasionally widened at base. Lemmas of lateral spikelets 2.5-5 mm, abaxially glabrous, with scabrid awn 2-7 mm, adaxially with scattered hairs; rachilla prolongation 1-3 mm. Lemma of central spikelet 5.5-7.5 mm, abaxially glabrous, scabrid awn 6-15 mm overtopping glumes, adaxially with scattered soft hairs above. Palea = lemma, folded, keels shortly excurrent and scabrid near tip, abaxially glabrous, adaxially with a few short hairs apically. Rachilla prolongation c. 2.5-4 mm. Lodicules 1 mm, glabrous. Anthers 0.75-1.3 mm. Gynoecium: ovary c. 0.5 mm; stigma-styles 1.2-1.5 mm. Caryopsis 3-5 × 1-1.5 mm; embryo 0.5 mm.

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Critesion hystrix (Roth) Á.Löve
Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum (Parl.) Thell.
Hordeum hystrix Roth
Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum (Parl.) Thell.
Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum (Parl.) Thell.
Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum (Parl.) Thell.

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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18 June 2021
18 June 2021
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