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Lolium multiflorum Lam.

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Lolium multiflorum Lam. (1778)
Lolium multiflorum Lam.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Lam.
Lam.
1778
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Lolium multiflorum Lam.
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Lolium multiflorum

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multiflorum

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Lolium multiflorum Lam.

Annual to biennial, slender to rather stout tufts, (20)-40-100-(130) cm; branching intravaginal, leaf-blade rolled when young. Leaf-sheath glabrous, pink at base to light brown above, not becoming very fibrous; upper sheaths sometimes scabrid. Auricles usually present, to 1.6 mm. Ligule (0.6)-1-2.5 mm, truncate, glabrous. Leaf-blade (5.5)-8-30 cm × (0.7)-2.5-9-(11) mm, abaxially glabrous and shining, adaxially smooth or usually scaberulous; margins scaberulous, tapered to scabrid acute tip. Culm 10-60 cm, erect, or spreading or decumbent, often branched below, internodes smooth. Spikes (9.5)-15-35-(45) cm, erect or curved; rachis c. 1 mm wide, usually ± scabrid. Spikelets 14-25 mm, (4)-9-14-flowered, green or purplish, overlapping, or more than their own length apart. Upper glume usually « spikelet, 5-7-nerved, narrow-lanceolate or narrow-oblong, obtuse or acute, glabrous. Lemma 6-8 mm, 5-nerved, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, smooth or minutely scaberulous especially on hyaline margins, not turgid at maturity, apex obtuse or shortly bifid; awn (2)-4-10 mm, fine, straight, subapical. Palea ≈ lemma, keels scaberulous. Anthers 3-4.5 mm. Caryopsis 2-4 × 0.5-1.5 mm.

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Lolium multiflorum Lam.
Lolium multiflorum Lam.

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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Lolium multiflorum Lam.
France
Lolium multiflorum Lam.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Lolium multiflorum Lam.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Lolium multiflorum Lam.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Lolium multiflorum Lam.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Lolium multiflorum Lam.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 March 2007
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