Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 26: 260 (1894) – as Eleocharis neo-zelandica
Description
Rhizome far-creeping, dark brown, c. 1 mm. diam. Culms 3–6–(8) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., rigid, often curved, sheaths membr., lower purple-brown, upper with orifice slightly to very oblique and tapering to a sharp point. Spikelets 5–6–(8) × 1–4 mm., 4–10-fld, broadly ovoid, acute to obtuse, much broader than clum. Glumes 2.5–3.5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, uninerved. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3, or 2. Style 2-fid. Nut 1.5–2 × c. 1mm., rather asymmetrically obovate, biconvex, narrowed in lower half, smooth and shining, golden-brown, the persistent style-base very small, dark brown, with a prominent basal ring.
[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Declining]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Declining]
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. [Declining]
Kirk, T. 1894: Descriptions of new cyperaceous plants, chiefly from the Nelson Provincial District. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 26: 260–263.
Webb, C.J.; Edgar, E. 1999: Spelling New Zealand in the specific and infraspecific epithets of vascular plants. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(1): 71–77.
