Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Austrostipa S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Austrostipa scabra (Lindl.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett, Telopea 6: 588 (1996) subsp. scabra
Synonymy:
  • = Stipa scabra Lindl. (1848) subsp. scabra
 Description

Panicle dense, spikelets close-set; longer auricular lobes of culm-leaf 2–4 mm, usually with some long hairs between leaf-blade and lobe.

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

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Jacobs, S. W. L.; Everett, J.; Connor, H. E.; Edgar, E. 1989: Stipoid grasses in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 27: 569–582. [as Stipa scabra Lindl. subsp. scabra]
Jacobs, S.W.L.; Everett, J. 1996: Austrostipa, a new genus, and new names for Australasian species formerly included in Stipa (Gramineae). Telopea 6(4): 579–595.