Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Chionochloa Zotov
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chionochloa rubra Zotov, New Zealand J. Bot. 1: 96 (1963) subsp. rubra
 Description

Leaf-sheath to 30 cm, fracturing into short segments, dark brown, internerves glabrous or long hairy. Leaf-blade to 1 m, falling with part of sheath, adaxially with rows of short hairs at base. Culm to 1.5 m, internodes and sheath glabrous. Lemma with long dense hairs on margin, very sparse or absent elsewhere, < sinus; lateral lobes to 6 mm including awn to 2 mm.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Chionochloa rubra Zotov subsp. rubra
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Bibliography
Connor, H.E. 1991: Chionochloa Zotov (Gramineae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 29: 219–283.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Zotov, V.D. 1963: Synopsis of the grass subfamily Arundinoideae in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 1: 78–136.