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Cortaderia Stapf

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Cortaderia Stapf, Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 22: 22 (1897)
Cortaderia Stapf

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Stapf
Stapf
1897
22
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Cortaderia Stapf
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Cortaderia

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Cortaderia

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Cortaderia Stapf

Tall perennial tussocks with robust intravaginal shoots (extravaginal in C. splendens). Leaf-sheaths heavily coated in epicuticular wax or not, breaking into short segments or remaining entire. Ligule a rim of short hairs. Leaf-blade to 2 m long, tapering, 1-many evident ribs, scabrid and sharply cutting from many antrorse prickle-teeth or scarcely so, homo- or heterochromous. Panicle large, plumose, variously coloured subtended by long, hair-fringed bract, branches stiff to flexible. Glumes 1-nerved, transparent, minutely prickle-toothed. Spikelets with 3-7 florets. Flowers dimorphic on separate plants, ☿ and ♀, gynodioecious. Lemma 3-nerved, hairs abundant and radiating (except on ☿) awned from between bifid lobes or entire and mucronate. Lodicules 2, cuneate and irregularly lobed, hair-tipped. Androecium of male-fertile flowers with 3 long anthers, of male-sterile flowers reduced to small staminodes or shorter sterile anthers. Gynoecium with 2 plumose stigmas (and the remnant of a third), ♀ > ☿. Caryopsis free; hilum linear c. ½ caryopsis. Fig. 17.

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Cortaderia Stapf
Cortaderia Stapf
Cortaderia Stapf
Cortaderia Stapf
Cortaderia Stapf
Cortaderia Stapf
Cortaderia Stapf
Cortaderia
Cortaderia Stapf

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Cortaderia Stapf
Argentina
Cortaderia Stapf
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cortaderia Stapf
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cortaderia Stapf
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
21 January 2014
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