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Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone

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Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone in Chemisquy et al., Ann. Bot. 106: 127 (2010)
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Chiov.
Morrone
2010
127
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species
Cenchrus clandestinus

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clandestinus

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Decumbent to semiscandent perennials, with creeping, cataphyll-covered rhizomes and long stolons 2.5-5.5 mm diam., rooting at nodes; when grazed or mown forming a close, compact, light green turf; plants with ☿ florets, or monoecious, or dioecious. Leaf-sheath light brown or almost white, ± membranous, usually with scattered, fine, tubercle-based hairs, rarely glabrous. Ligule 1-2 mm, a densely ciliate rim. Leaf-blade (1.5)-3-8-(25) cm × 1.5-2.5-(9) mm, at first tightly folded, later flattened, linear, gradually tapering, soft, glabrous, or with a few, fine, tubercle-based hairs, sparingly scabrid on margins and midrib near narrow subobtuse tip. Culm internodes shining, glabrous, extending as long, rooting, flattened stolons, with short to long ascending branches often closely clustered into tufts. Inflorescences borne on the short branches, usually consisting of clusters of (1)-2-4 spikelets partly or almost entirely hidden in the leaf-sheaths, very rarely a short, reduced, spike-like panicle exserted beyond uppermost leaf-sheath. Spikelets 1.5-2 mm, subsessile, or usually the terminal and sometimes the lateral spikelets pedicelled and subtended by (3)-5-15 ciliate, whitish, unequal (1.5-12 mm), finely scabrid bristles. Glumes unequal; lower 0, or sometimes a minute, nerveless scale, upper often 0, occasionally a short (3 mm), transparent, 3-nerved scale. Lower floret Ø: lemma = spikelet, 9-13-nerved, papery; palea 0. Upper floret ☿, ♂ or ♀: lemma ≈ spikelet, 9-11-nerved, papery; palea of same texture as lemma, rounded, with 2-4 smooth nerves; lodicules 0; anthers of ☿ and ♂ florets: 4-5 mm, with filaments much extended at anthesis, to c. 3 cm, and exserted from leaf-sheath giving patches of the plant a silvery appearance, of ♀ florets: 3-4 mm, on short filaments retained within spikelets; style and stigmas long-exserted from floret, 1.5-3.5 mm, stigmas connate, finely plumose, often bifid at tip; caryopsis c. 2 × 15 mm, oblong, slightly laterally compressed, brown. Plate 4B.

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Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov.
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov.
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone

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Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
Australia
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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31 August 2011
31 August 2011
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