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Ehrharta Thunb.

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Ehrharta Thunb. (1779)
Ehrharta Thunb.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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Thunb.
Thunb.
1779
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Ehrharta Thunb.
genus
Ehrharta

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Ehrharta

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Ehrharta Thunb.

Annual or perennial. Ligule membranous, short, or a ring of hairs. Leaf-blade flat to convolute. Inflorescence usually a contracted panicle, rarely a raceme, often secund. Spikelets pedicelled; disarticulation above glumes but not between florets; rachilla not prolonged. Glumes equal or unequal, usually ≤ spikelet and becoming widely reflexed. Lemmas of Ø florets usually unequal, glabrous or hairy, one or both often transversely rugose, awned or awnless; lower lemma ≤ glumes, upper usually > glumes, boat-shaped, frequently with basal appendages or tufts of hairs. Lemma of ☿ floret usually shorter, awned or awnless, very often with a knob-like appendage at base forming a hinge with the appendage of the upper Ø lemma. Palea ≈ lemma of ☿ floret, narrowly 2-nerved. Lodicules cuneate, finely nerved below. Stamens 6 or 3. Stigma branches aspergilliform. Caryopsis elliptic; embryo ¼-⅕ length of caryopsis; hilum ≈ caryopsis.

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Ehrharta Thunb.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Ehrharta Thunb.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1fbef54c-d917-4d36-ba92-62e5ea3a9b57
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1 January 2000
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