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Briza minor L.

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Briza minor L. (1753)
Briza minor L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
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Briza minor L.
species
Briza minor

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minor

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Briza minor L.

Erect to sprawling annual tufts, (5)-15-90 cm. Leaf-sheath submembranous, glabrous, striate. Ligule 2.5-5.5 mm, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Leaf-blade (2)-5-16 cm × 2-9 mm, flat, thin, striate, adaxially minutely scabrid on ribs; margins minutely scabrid, tip acute. Culm 10-70 cm, erect or slightly geniculate at base, internodes glabrous. Panicle (1)-5-20 × (0.4)-3-11 cm, lax, much branched, with numerous spikelets; rachis glabrous, branches erect to widely spreading, finely scabrid, pedicels very filiform, often flexuous or curved, 5-10 mm. Spikelets 3-4.5 × 2.5-3.5 mm, (3)-5-9-flowered, pendent, ± ovate to subtriangular, shining, usually pale green, sometimes purplish. Glumes ± equal, 1.7-2.6 mm, 3-(5)-nerved, patent, concave, centrally firmly membranous, margins wide, hyaline, apex hooded. Lemma 1.5-2.5 mm, 7-nerved, similar to glumes but hardened central portion bearing scale-like, readily caducous hairs, deeply concave, base cordate, margins membranous, very broad, apex inflexed at maturity. Palea 1.4-1.8 mm, somewhat < lemma, elliptic, flat, keels narrow, interkeel with scale-like, readily caducous hairs. Lodicules 0.5-0.7 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute, sometimes hair-tipped. Anthers 0.4-0.8 mm. Gynoecium: ovary 0.5-0.6 mm; stigma-styles c. 1.2 mm. Caryopsis c. 1 × 0.5 mm; embryo c. 0.4 mm; hilum punctiform, c. 0.2 mm.

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Briza minor L.
Briza minor L.

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Briza minor L.
Australia
Briza minor L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Briza minor L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Briza minor L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Briza minor L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Briza minor L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Briza minor L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Briza minor L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Briza minor L.
Norfolk Island

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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