Buchloe dactyloides
ξBuchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm. ξThe single specimen consists of rather dense, reddish grey, curly leaved tufts, 10-14 cm, with one tuft bearing a long stolon giving rise to 3 smaller tufts. Basal bracts short, straw-coloured, some reddish at base. Leaf-sheath glabrous with scattered long hairs above. Ligule c. 0.6 mm, ciliate. Leaf-blade 3-10 cm × 1-1.5 mm, flat, with scattered long hairs; margins finely scabrid, tip long-filiform, curled. A North American sp., known there as buffalo grass, collected once from Earnscleugh, Central Otago, on grassland on dry flats A. J. Healy 59/185 16.2.1958, escaped from old experimental plots (CHR 121871); the specimen is vegetative only.
