Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Chionochloa Zotov
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chionochloa conspicua subsp. cunninghamii (Hook.f.) Zotov, New Zealand J. Bot. 1: 94 (1963)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Danthonia cunninghamii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 332 (1864)
  • = Danthonia antarctica var. β laxiflora Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 302 (1853)
  • = Danthonia antarctica var. γ parviflora Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 302 (1853)
  • = Danthonia pentaflora Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 16: 343 (1883 [1884])
 Description

Leaf-sheath glabrous. Leaf-blade with up to 5 conspicuous ribs, glabrous but occasionally with some long hairs adaxially. Glumes with abundant prickle-teeth abaxially and adaxially; lower 3–5-nerved, upper 5–7-nerved. Lemma with prickle-teeth abaxially and adaxially; lateral lobes to 2.5 mm including awn to 1 mm. Palea internerve with conspicuous prickles or hairs. Anthers to 4.5 mm.

[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1884 ("1883"): A further contribution towards making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 325–363.
Connor, H.E. 1991: Chionochloa Zotov (Gramineae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 29: 219–283.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Zotov, V.D. 1963: Synopsis of the grass subfamily Arundinoideae in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 1: 78–136.