Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Austrostipa S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett, Telopea 6: 110 (1996)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Stipa falcata Hughes (1921)
  • ≡ Stipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett, Telopea 3: 110 (1986)
 Description

Panicle open, spikelets spreading, longer auricular lobe of culm-leaf to 1 mm, usually subtended by a row of hairs ≥ lobe; culm more slender than in subsp. scabra.

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

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Jacobs, S. W. L.; Everett, J.; Connor, H. E.; Edgar, E. 1989: Stipoid grasses in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 27: 569–582. [as Stipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett]
Jacobs, S.W.L.; Everett, J. 1996: Austrostipa, a new genus, and new names for Australasian species formerly included in Stipa (Gramineae). Telopea 6(4): 579–595.
Vickery, J.W.; Jacobs, S. W. L.; Everett, J. 1986: Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3: 1–132.