Class
Order
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Stenostachys Turcz. (1862)
Synonymy:
- = Cockaynea Zotov, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 73: 233 (1943)
Type Taxon:
Description
Slender hairy stoloniferous grass with extravaginal branching, and with long graceful glabrous culms with drooping or nodding inflorescences. Spikelets solitary, sessile at nodes, edgewise to sinuous, antrorsely toothed rachis, appressed, imbricate, in narrow slender spikes of 10–30 spikelets with 1–3 awned to mucronate florets disarticulating above glumes. Glumes parallel to rachis, scabrid, aristate, > rachis internodes, or absent or reduced to small stumps; rachis prolonged. Lodicules ciliate. Ovary with apical corona and hispid hairs. Caryopsis adherent to palea; hilum = caryopsis.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 4 |
| Total | 4 |
Bibliography
Barkworth, M.E.; Jacobs, S.W.L. 2011: The Triticeae (Gramineae) in Australasia. Telopea 13(1-2): 37–56.
Connor, H.E. 1994: Indigenous New Zealand Triticeae: Gramineae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 32: 125–154.
Garnock-Jones, P.J. 2014: Evidence-based review of the taxonomic status of New Zealand’s endemic seed plant genera. New Zealand Journal of Botany 52(2): 163–212.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Zotov, V.D. 1943: Certain Changes in the Nomenclature of New Zealand Species of Gramineae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 73: 233–238.
