Classification
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Sacciolepis Nash, Man. Fl. N. States [Britton] Man. Fl. N. States [Britton] Man. Fl. N. States [Britton] Man. Fl. N. States [Britton] Man. Fl. N. States [Britton], 89 (1901)
 Description

Annuals or perennials, herbaceous, often aquatic; of variable habit. Inflorescence a contracted spike-like or rarely open panicle with rather small, often densely clustered spikelets. Spikelets solitary, pedicelled, falling entire at maturity, 2-flowered; lower floret ♂ or Ø, upper floret ☿. Glumes very unequal in length, of similar texture, softly to rigidly membranous, or the lower reduced to a scale and the upper = spikelet, often basally gibbous, (5)–7–9–(13)-nerved. Lower floret: lemma ≈ upper glume but straighter; palea ≈ lemma, finely 2-keeled, or palea almost 0. Upper floret: lemma very convex, chartaceous to subcrustaceous, obscurely 5-nerved; palea = lemma, of similar texture, 2-nerved, scarcely keeled; lodicules 2, small, broadly cuneate, fleshy, glabrous; stamens 3; ovary apex glabrous, stigmas free, terminal or subterminal; caryopsis compressed, embryo c. half length of caryopsis, hilum punctiform.

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

 Biostatus
Exotic
Number of species in New Zealand within Sacciolepis Nash
CategoryNumber
Exotic: Fully Naturalised1
Total1
 Bibliography
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Nash, G.V. Family 1. Gramíneae Juss. In: Britton, N.L. Manual of the Flora of the northern States and Canada. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 61–158.