Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Machaerina Vahl (1805)
Synonymy:
  • = Baumea Gaudich., Voy. Uranie, Bot. 416, t. 29 (1829)
 Description

Infl. an effuse often drooping panicle. Spikelets , 2–6-fld, 2–4 lowest fls setting fr. Glumes obscurely distichous to spiral. Hypog. bristles 6–3, or 0 (in N.Z. sp. 0). Stamens 3. Style-branches 3, style-base ± 3-winged or sharply 3-angled. Fr. with very thin brittle pericarp at maturity and a ± 3-winged us. long stipe, crowned by the persistent conspicuous style-base. Perennial herbs. Lvs us. basal, strongly laterally compressed, distichous, equitant at the base.

[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Machaerina Vahl
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Indigenous (Non-endemic)6
Total8
 Bibliography
Bruhl, J.J. 1995: Sedge genera of the world: relationships and a new classification of the Cyperaceae. Australian Systematic Botany 8: 125–305.
Gaudichaud-Beaupré, C. 1829: Voyage Autour du Monde ... sur les Corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne. Vol. 10.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.