Austrostipa scabra (Lindl.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett subsp. scabra
Panicle dense, spikelets close-set; longer auricular lobes of culm-leaf 2-4 mm, usually with some long hairs between leaf-blade and lobe.
S.: Marlborough to Canterbury, and Waitaki Basin. In modified grassland to 250 m.
Naturalised from Australia.
Late in the season a floriferous branch may develop at the uppermost culm node and emerge from the culm leaf-sheath below the earlier flowering terminal inflorescence; flowering there is cleistogamous.
