Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Agrostis dyeri Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 22: 441 (1889 [1890])
Synonymy:
  • = Agrostis dyeri var. aristata Hack. in Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 865 (1906)
 Description

Tufts usually stiff, occasionally laxer with wide leaves, (10)–15–55 cm, with culms usually much overtopping leaves; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath firmly membranous, light green to light greyish brown, distinctly ribbed, smooth, or scabrid above near ligule, or scabrid throughout, or only basal sheaths scabrid, later shredding into fibres. Ligule 0.8–2.2 mm, truncate, erose to lacerate, abaxially smooth or scabrid. Leaf-blade 3.5–10–(17.5) cm × 1–2.5–(4) mm, usually flat, abaxially smooth or finely scabrid on ribs, very rarely densely scabrid throughout, adaxially finely scabrid, tip acute to acuminate. Culm erect or geniculate at base, internodes glabrous. Panicle (4)–5–12–(20) cm, narrowly branched, lanceolate, either contracted after flowering but > 5 mm wide, or remaining open; rachis smooth, branches and pedicels filiform, sparsely scabrid. Spikelets c. 3–3.5–(4) mm, green to brownish purple. Glumes ± equal, smooth, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, keel finely scabrid above, margins scabrid near tip. Lemma 2.3–3.3 mm, glabrous, 5-nerved, ovate-elliptic, truncate, minutely denticulate; awn 0, or rarely fine, straight, scabrid, to c. 2 mm, arising from midpoint to upper ⅓ of lemma, scarcely or not projecting beyond glumes. Palea 0.5–0.8 mm, ovate. Lodicules ≤ palea. Callus with small tuft of hairs or only a few minute hairs below each lemma margin. Anthers 0.6–1.2 mm. Caryopsis 1–1.8 × 0.3–0.5 mm. 2n= 42.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
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]
Edgar, E.; Forde, M. B. 1991: Agrostis in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 29: 139–161.
Petrie, D. 1890 ("1889"): Descriptions of New Native Plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 22: 439–443.