- ≡ Poa walkeri Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 17: 224 (1885)
- ≡ Atropis walkeri (Kirk) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 203 (1925)
- = Glyceria novae-zealandiae Petrie (1901)
- ≡ Atropis novae-zealandiae (Petrie) Hack in Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 915 (1906)
- ≡ Puccinellia novae-zealandiae (Petrie) Allan & Jansen, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 69: 266 (1939)
Erect, bluish green or light green to pale brownish green, stiff, dense, very leafy tufts, (6)–10–50 cm, with uppermost leaves usually overtopping culms; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath glabrous, firmly membranous, striate. Ligule 0.6–3 mm, obtuse or truncate, or sometimes tapered centrally and acute, glabrous, entire. Leaf-blade 5–25 cm × 5–10 mm, folded, or sometimes almost flat and wider, abaxially glabrous, adaxially shallowly ribbed, ribs sparsely scabrid; margins scabrid, tip smooth, ± firmly acute, sometimes subobtuse and ± apiculate. Culm usually hidden by sheaths, internodes glabrous. Panicle ± overtopped by leaves, linear-lanceolate, erect, contracted, dense; branches stiff, erect, sometimes ± spreading at maturity. Spikelets (3)–5–9 mm, 2–5-flowered, bluish green or sometimes purplish. Glumes ± unequal, narrow-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, subacute; lower 1.5–3.6–(4.2) mm, 1–3-nerved, upper 2–4.5–(5) mm, 3–5-nerved. Lemma 3–5 mm, 5–7-nerved, elliptic-oblong, usually with a few hairs at base and on nerves near base or to c. midway. Palea ≤ lemma. Rachilla 0.8–1.5–(1.8) mm. Anthers (0.6)–0.8–1.5 mm. Caryopsis (1.5)–1.8–2.6 × 0.4–0.8 mm.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]
Category | Number |
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Indigenous (Endemic) | 3 |
Total | 3 |