Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Simplicia Kirk
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Simplicia felix de Lange, J.R.Rolfe, Smissen & Ogle, PhytoKeys 75: 136 (2016)
Synonymy:
Holotype. ‘Eastern Wairarapa Ecological Region and District, Te Kanuka Farm Station, Kaumingi Stream’ P.J. de Lange 12167, J.R. Rolfe & T. Silbery, 27 Feb 2014, (AK 351325) Isotypes. CAN, CHR, F, WAIK, WELT, US
Etymology:
The epithet ‘felix’ is taken from the Latin for ‘lucky’ (N.G. Walsh, MEL pers comm., 14 January 2016) as in ‘lucky find’ in reference to the circumstances of this species’ discovery; that came about through the desire to get a name on an unremarkable little tuft of grass that was discovered fortuitously near Mangaweka, Central North Island by CCO on 29 January 2005 (Ogle 2010).
 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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. [Nationally Critical]
de Lange, P.J.; Smissen, R.D.; Rolfe, J.R.; Ogle, C.C. 2016: Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) – an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119–144.