Flora of New Zealand Series

G. striata (Lam.) Hitchc., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 41: 157 (1928).

fowl manna-grass

Stoloniferous clumps. Leaf-sheath light brown, membranous, closed, striate, ribs minutely scabrid, cross-veinlets few, inconspicuous. Ligule 1.5-3 mm, membranous, glabrous, tapered to a point. Leaf-blade 10-25 cm × 1-4 mm, flat, midrib minutely scabrid; margins minutely scabrid, narrowed to long fine tip. Panicle 15-25 cm, slender, with numerous small spikelets on slender branches naked below; rachis, branches and pedicels finely scabrid. Spikelets 2-3 mm, 3-4-flowered, light green to purplish. Glumes subequal, 1-nerved, membranous with conspicuous midnerve, ovate, subobtuse, margins ciliate; lower < 1 mm, upper c. 1 mm. Lemma 1.3-1.8 mm, 7-nerved, ovate, obtuse; nerves minutely tubercular-scabrid, extending into wide upper hyaline margin. Palea 1-1.5 mm, ≈ lemma, obovate, obtuse, keels minutely tubercular-scabrid. Rachilla 0.3-0.4 mm, minutely tubercular-scabrid. Anthers 0.3-0.4 mm. Caryopsis 0.8 × 0.6 mm.

N.: North and South Auckland, Taranaki (between Te Kiri and Egmont National Park); S.: Nelson (Matiri Scenic Reserve). Damp ground, dairy pasture.

Naturalised from North America.