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Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chionochloa vireta Connor (1991)
Description
Slender tussock with stramineous, hairy sheaths. Leaf-sheath to 10 cm, hairy, entire, margins often undulating, apical tuft of hairs to 3.5 mm. Ligule to 0.5 mm. Leaf-blade to 30 cm × 2.5 mm, flat or ± U-V-shaped, keeled, twisting above, disarticulating at ligule, abaxially prickle-toothed above, adaxially with prickle-teeth; margin with long hairs below, becoming prickle-toothed or rarely becoming smooth. Culm to 60 cm, slender, internodes glabrous. Inflorescence to 13 cm, glabrous except for long hairs at branch axils. Spikelets golden and purple, of up to 8 florets. Glumes usually > nearest lemma lobes; lower to 10 mm, 1–3–5-nerved, upper to 11 mm, 3–5–7-nerved. Lemma to 5.5 mm; hairs dense on margin and aside central nerve, sparse or absent elsewhere; lateral lobes to 4 mm, shortly awned or triangular-acute; central awn to 7 mm from a flat, rarely twisting, column to 2 mm. Palea to 7 mm. Callus to 1 mm, hairs to 2.5 mm. Rachilla to 1 mm. Lodicules to 1 mm. Anthers to 3.5 mm. Gynoecium: ovary to 1 mm; stigma-styles to 2 mm. Caryopsis to 2 mm.
[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.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
