Class
Order
Family
Very small to medium-sized with rhizomes monopodial, short or elongated. Culms dense or diffuse, sometimes very slender; nodes prominent; internodes terete, ± hollow, fistula sometimes very narrow. Culm-sheaths ± persistent, < internodes, concolorous; auricles 0; oral bristles glabrous. Branches usually 1–7 per node. Leaf-sheath with oral bristles usually present (at least when young). Leaf-blade usually conspicuously tessellate, abaxially usually partly glaucous or glauc-esent and partly green. Inflorescence racemose or paniculate. Spikelets 5–13-flowered. Lodicules 3, ciliate. Stamens 3. Stigmas 3.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]
Category | Number |
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Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 5 |
Total | 5 |