Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Chionochloa Zotov
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chionochloa rubra subsp. cuprea Connor (1991)
 Description

Leaf-sheath to 30 cm, entire, dark brown, interribs with minute hairs sometimes glabrous. Leaf-blade to 1 m, persisting on sheath, adaxially with dense weft of long hairs at base extending up leaf-blade often with short hairs as well, papillae or prickle-teeth above. Culm to 1.5 m, internodes glabrous, sheath glabrous. Lemma to 6 mm; hairs dense on margins less so in internerves, < sinus; lateral lobes to 7 mm, awn to 3.5 mm, infrequently long triangular-acute. Plates 8D, 9A.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Connor, H.E. 1991: Chionochloa Zotov (Gramineae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 29: 219–283.
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]