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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lachnagrostis uda Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 33: 32 (1995)
Description
Rather lax, perennial tufts, 9–35 cm; branching extravaginal. Leaf-sheath firmly membranous, inconspicuously ribbed, glabrous, light green to dull brown. Ligule 1–2.5 mm, truncate, erose or denticulate, abaxially sparsely, finely scabrid. Leaf-blade 3–10–(15) cm × 1–2 mm, flat or folded, abaxially smooth, adaxially sparsely, finely scabrid on ribs; margins minutely, sparsely scabrid, tip obtuse. Culm 4–20 cm, often included within uppermost leaf-sheath, internodes finely scabrid below nodes and below panicle. Panicle 3–14 × 1.5–8 cm, rather contracted at first, later lax; rachis finely scabrid, branches filiform, finely scabrid, tipped by rather few spikelets. Spikelets (2.5)–3–3.5–(4) mm, pale green or tinged faint purple. Glumes ± equal, elliptic-lanceolate, midnerve and margins scabrid in upper ¼, occasionally in upper ½ or ⅔. Lemma 2–2.5 mm, c. ¾ length of glumes, with scattered soft hairs, very rarely glabrous, ovate-oblong, truncate, lateral nerves not, or scarcely, excurrent, midnerve produced to a mucro, or sometimes a straight subapical awn, to 2.5 mm. Palea ½-⅔ length of lemma, apex shallowly bifid, keels c. 0.3 mm apart, very faint. Callus hairs conspicuous, to 1 mm, to ½ length of lemma. Rachilla prolongation c. 0.2 mm, tipped by hairs to c. 0.8 mm. Lodicules 0.5–0.8 mm, lanceolate, acute. Anthers 0.7–1.3 mm. Caryopsis 1.2–1.8 × 0.5–0.6 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.; 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. [Naturally uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Edgar, E. 1995: New Zealand species of Deyeuxia P.Beauv. and Lachnagrostis Trin. (Graminieae: Aveneae)*. New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: 1–33.
