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- ≡ Triodia billardierei Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16 [Sprengel] 1, 330 (1824)
- = Festuca littoralis Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. 1, 22 (1805)
- ≡ Schedonorus littoralis (Labill.) P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr. 99, 163, 177 (1812)
- ≡ Austrofestuca littoralis (Labill.) E.B.Alexeev (1976)
- = Arundo triodioides Trin., Species Graminum t. 351 (1836)
- ≡ Poa triodioides (Trin.) Zotov, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 73: 236 (1943) nom. superfl.
- = Schedonorus billardiereanus Nees, London Journal of Botany 2: 419 (1843) nom. superfl.
- = Schedonorus littoralis var. β minor Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 310 (1853)
Dense, very stiff, rhizomatous tussocks, to 100 cm, with pungent leaves usually overtopping culms. Leaf-sheath light brown to grey-brown, coriaceous, striate, glabrous. Ligule 0.7–1 mm, asymmetrical, stiffly membranous, ciliate. Leaf-blade 10–60 cm ×c. 1 mm diam., inrolled, wiry, abaxially glabrous, adaxially densely minutely pubescent. Culm (8)–12–50 cm, erect, internodes glabrous. Panicle (3.5)–6–25 cm, stiff, erect, contracted, almost spike-like; rachis glabrous, branches erect, pedicels with dense stiff minute hairs and prickle-teeth. Spikelets 9–16 mm, 3–6-flowered, greenish brown. Glumes almost equal, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, minutely prickle-toothed above, densely prickle-toothed on keel; lower 5.5–10 mm, (3)–5-nerved, upper 6.5–11 mm, 3–(5)-nerved; margins finely prickle-toothed. Lemma 6–11.5 mm, 5–7–(9)-nerved, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or with shortly excurrent midnerve, ± covered with very dense, stiff prickle-teeth, often minutely hairy on nerves below. Palea 5–8 mm, subcoriaceous, keels very densely, short, stiff hairy, interkeel and flanks minutely prickle-toothed. Lodicules c. 1.5 mm, bilobed, ciliate. Callus ringed by short, stiff hairs. Rachilla sparsely to densely hairy especially near apex. Anthers (1.5)–2–3 mm. Gynoecium: ovary c. 2 mm; stigma-styles c. 3 mm. Caryopsis 2.5–4 ×c. 1 mm. 2n= 28. Plate 5B.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 as Austrofestuca littoralis (Labill.) E.B.Alexeev]