Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Oplismenus P.Beauv.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Oplismenus hirtellus subsp. imbecillis (R.Br.) U.Scholz, 13: 127 (1981)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Orthopogon imbecillis R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 194 (1810)
  • ≡ Oplismenus imbecillis (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. (1817)
  • ≡ Panicum imbecille (R.Br.) Trin. (1829)
  • ≡ Oplismenus hirtellus var. imbecillis (R.Br.) Fosberg & Sachet, 18: 78 (1982)
 Description

Leaf-blade (0.8)–1.5–4 cm × 2–6 mm, narrow elliptic to ovate-lanceolate. Panicle (1)–2–9 cm; rachis of racemelets and longer spikelet clusters usually 1–4 mm, rarely longer. Spikelets up to 4 in small clusters and racemelets below, paired to solitary above or throughout rachis. Upper glume acute, mucronate, or with very short awn < 1 mm. 2n= 54. Fig. 22.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
Brown, R. 1810: Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen. Johnson, London.
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]
Edgar, E.; Connor, H.E. 2010: Flora of New Zealand Volume V Grasses. Edition 2. Manaaki Whenua Press.
Fosberg, F.R.; Sachet, M. H. 1982: Micronesian Poaceae: critical and distributional notes. Micronesica 18: 45–102.
Scholz, U. 1981: Monographie der Gattung Oplismenus (Gramineae). Phan.Monogr. 13: 1–213.