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Echinopogon P.Beauv.

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Echinopogon P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr. 42 (1812)
Echinopogon P.Beauv.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, New Zealand

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P.Beauv.
P.Beauv.
1812
42
ICN
Echinopogon P.Beauv.
genus
Echinopogon

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Echinopogon

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Echinopogon P.Beauv.

Tufted perennials. Leaf-sheath rounded. Leaf-blade flat, linear or linear-lanceolate. Panicle spike-like, oblong-cylindric or ovate, with densely crowded florets; branches short. Spikelets 1-flowered, shortly pedicelled or sessile; disarticulation above glumes; rachilla prolonged to a ± short bristle. Glumes subequal, 1-nerved, membranous, keeled, ≤ floret, acute to acuminate. Lemma 5-7-(11)-nerved, thinly coriaceous, apex bidentate, or setaceously bilobed, or rarely entire, stiffly awned apically or subapically, rarely mucronate. Palea ≈ lemma, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, membranous, ciliate or glabrous. Callus ringed by short hairs. Stamens 3. Ovary apex hairy or glabrous; styles free. Caryopsis longitudinally grooved; embryo small; hilum linear; endosperm liquid, or solid.

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Echinopogon P.Beauv.
Echinopogon P.Beauv.
Echinopogon P.Beauv.
Echinopogon P.Beauv.
Echinopogon P.Beauv.
Echinopogon
Echinopogon P.Beauv.

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Echinopogon P.Beauv.
Norfolk Island

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f1ba1da3-a873-4fc0-8354-786e9e1e76ee
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
23 January 2014
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