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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ammophila Host, Icon. Descr. Gram. Austriac. 24 (1809)
Description
Tough, rather coarse perennials with long-creeping rhizomes. Leaves tightly involute, pungent, glaucous. Inflorescence a dense, cylindric, spike-like panicle. Spikelets 1-flowered, strongly compressed laterally; disarticulation above glumes. Glumes ≥ lemma, firm with wide hyaline margin, keeled, persistent; lower 1-nerved, upper 3-nerved. Lemma 3–5-nerved, coriaceous, apex shortly bifid and shortly mucronate-awned. Palea ≈ lemma, subcoriaceous, keels close together. Lodicules 2, nerveless. Rachilla prolonged, hairy. Caryopsis enclosed by hardened anthoecium, longitudinally grooved; embryo small; hilum ± linear, c. ⅔ length of caryopsis; endosperm solid.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]
Biostatus
Exotic
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 1 |
| Total | 1 |
Bibliography
Host, N.T. 1809: Icones et Descriptiones Graminum Austriacorum. Vol. 4. Matthiae Andreae Schmidt, Vienna.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
