Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lachnagrostis littoralis subsp. salaria Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 33: 24-25 (1995)
Description
Rather coarse, stiff tufts, 20–60 cm. Leaf-sheath firmly membranous, glabrous. Ligule 1.5–3 mm, abaxially smooth, rarely sparsely scabrid. Leaf-blade 4–15 cm ×c. 0.5 mm diam., often involute, or flat and up to 2 mm wide. Culm 7–30 cm. Panicle 4–20 × 1–18 cm; branches closely scabrid. Spikelets 3–4 mm. Glumes dissimilar; lower slightly shorter, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, upper elliptic-ovate, ± acuminate, 3-nerved. Lemma 2.5–3 mm, elliptic-lanceolate; awn 2.5–4 mm, straight or ± curved. Palea keels c. 0.3 mm apart. Callus hairs 0.3–0.4 mm. Rachilla prolongation almost 0, or to 0.9 mm, with hairs to 1.2 mm. Lodicules 0.8–0.9 mm. Anthers (0.5)–0.6–0.7 mm. Caryopsis 1.3–1.6 × 0.4 mm.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
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. [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. [Data Deficient]
Edgar, E. 1995: New Zealand species of Deyeuxia P.Beauv. and Lachnagrostis Trin. (Graminieae: Aveneae)*. New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: 1–33.
