Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Koeleria Pers., Syn. Pl. [Persoon] 1, 97 (1805)
 Description

Tufted or rhizomatous perennials; branching extravaginal and intravaginal. Leaf-sheath glabrous to pubescent, or scabrid; margins hyaline. Ligule membranous, truncate to subacute, entire, erose or somewhat ciliate. Leaf-blade flat, folded, involute or convolute. Culm erect, sometimes geniculate at base. Inflorescence a contracted panicle, spike-like, cylindrical, or sometimes lanceolate, occasionally interrupted, especially near base; branches and pedicels glabrous, scabrid or pubescent. Spikelets 2–3–(5)-flowered, laterally compressed, third and upper florets reduced, or very reduced and Ø; disarticulation above glumes and between florets. Glumes subequal, membranous, with hyaline margins above, keeled, not awned; lower 1-nerved, shorter and narrower than upper, upper 3-nerved. Lemma membranous with hyaline margins above, (1)–3–5-nerved, keeled, entire, or mucronate, or with a short apical or subapical, inconspicuous, usually straight awn. Palea hyaline, shining, gaping when mature, 2-keeled, apex ± bifid. Callus short, hairy. Rachilla hairy. Flowers ☿, chasmogamous. Lodicules 2, hyaline, bifid. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous; styles free to base; stigmas plumose. Caryopsis oblong-fusiform, slightly laterally compressed; hilum short; endosperm liquid.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Koeleria Pers.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)3
Total3
 Bibliography
Edgar, E.; Gibb, E. S. 1999: Koeleria Pers. (Gramineae: Avenaeae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 51–61.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Persoon, C.H. 1805: Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum hucusque cognitarum. Vol. 1. Cramerum et Tubingæ, Paris.