Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pentapogon micranthus (Cav.) P.M. Peterson, Romasch. & Soreng in Peterson et al., J. Syst. Evol. 60: 18 (online) (2022)
Synonymy:
  • Stipa micrantha Cav. (1799)
  • Dichelachne micrantha (Cav.) Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 85: 358 (1915)
  • = Agrostis sciurea R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 171 (1810)
  • Dichelachne sciurea (R.Br.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 294 (1853)
  • = Dichelachne crinita var. intermedia Hack. ex Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 874 (1906)
 Description

Stout, rather rigid, extravaginal tufts, leaves < stiff, erect culms. Leaf-sheath stramineous to dull brown, with minute, appressed, scattered hairs. Ligule 0.3–0.5–(1) mm, membranous, truncate, minutely ciliate, abaxially scabrid, often asymmetric. Leaf-blade to 20 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm, rather stiff, flat, tapered towards tip, abaxially sparingly minutely scabrid, adaxially scabrid on ribs towards tip, minutely scabrid on margins. Culm 40–100 cm, internodes minutely scaberulous throughout, or glabrous but minutely scaberulous below panicle, variously purplish. Panicle 10–25 cm, erect, spike-like, often purplish, branches spreading at first; rachis, branchlets and pedicels closely short-scabrid. Spikelets numerous, close-set on branchlets, rather delicate. Glumes narrow-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, often suffused with purple; lower 3–4 mm, ⊬ lemma, upper 3.5–5 mm, > lemma. Lemma 2.5–4 mm, sometimes purplish; awn 12–18 mm, very fine, column straight, awn curving above and twisted 2–3 times along whole length, inserted 0.6–0.9 mm below minutely bifid lemma-tip. Palea 2–3 mm, narrow-linear, keels scabrid above, tip ciliate. Callus hairs 0.3–0.5 mm. Rachilla prolongation c. 0.05 mm. Lodicules (0.4)–0.6–0.8 mm, hyaline, elliptic-oblong, unequally bilobed, occasionally minutely ciliate. Anthers 1, 1.2–1.4 mm in chasmogamous flowers, 0.6–0.8 mm in cleistogamous flowers. Caryopsis 2.0–2.3 × 0.3–0.4 mm; embryo 0.2–0.4 mm; hilum 1.8–1.9 mm.

[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing). as Dichelachne micrantha (Cav.) Domin]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
Brown, R. 1810: Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen. Johnson, London.
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
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. [as Dichelachne micrantha (Cav.) Domin] [Nationally Vulnerable]
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. [as Dichelachne micrantha (Cav.) Domin] [Nationally Vulnerable]
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. [as Dichelachne micrantha (Cav.) Domin] [Nationally Vulnerable]
Domin, K. 1915: Beiträge zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 85: 1–551.
Edgar, E.; Connor, H. E. 1982: Dichelachne (Gramineae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 20: 303–309. [as Agrostis sciurea R.Br.; Dichelachne micrantha (Cav.) Domin; Dichelachne sciurea (R.Br.) Hook.f.; Stipa micrantha Cav.]
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.
Peterson, P.M.; Soreng, R.J.; Romaschenko, K.; Barberá, P.; Quintanar, A.; Aedo, C.; Saarela, J.M. 2022: Phylogeny and biogeography of Calamagrostis (Poaceae: Pooideae: Poeae: Agrostidinae), description of a new genus, Condilorachia (Calothecinae), and expansion of Greeneochloa and Pentapogon (Echinopogoninae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60(3): 570–590. (Published online: May 2022)