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Stenostachys Turcz.

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New Zealand
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Turcz.
Turcz.
1862
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Stenostachys Turcz.
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Stenostachys

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Stenostachys

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Stenostachys Turcz.

Spikelets solitary, sessile at nodes, edgewise to sinuous antrorsely toothed rachis, appressed, imbricate, in narrow slender spikes of 10 – 30 spikelets with 1–3 awned to mucronate florets disarticulating above glumes; glumes parallel to rachis, scabrid, aristate > rachis internodes, or absent or reduced to small stumps; rachis prolonged. A flat, thin and hairy stoloniferous grass with extravaginal branching, and with long graceful smooth culms with drooping or nodding inflorescences.

Stenostachys Turcz.

n = 14 bivalents, 12 bivalents + 1 quadrivalents, 11 bivalents + 1 hexivalents, 10 bivalents + 1 octivalents, 1 univalents + 12 bivalents + 1 trivalents

Stenostachys Turcz.

Slender hairy stoloniferous grass with extravaginal branching, and with long graceful glabrous culms with drooping or nodding inflorescences. Spikelets solitary, sessile at nodes, edgewise to sinuous, antrorsely toothed rachis, appressed, imbricate, in narrow slender spikes of 10-30 spikelets with 1-3 awned to mucronate florets disarticulating above glumes. Glumes parallel to rachis, scabrid, aristate, > rachis internodes, or absent or reduced to small stumps; rachis prolonged. Lodicules ciliate. Ovary with apical corona and hispid hairs. Caryopsis adherent to palea; hilum = caryopsis.

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Cockaynea Zotov
Stenostachys Turcz.
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Stenostachys Turcz.
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Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys Turcz.
Stenostachys

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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8fc45f83-5f6b-42bc-9acc-fa037e9cfdcc
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 August 2014
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