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Volume V (2000) - Flora of New Zealand Gramineae
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Poa aucklandica subsp. campbellensis (Petrie) Edgar

subsp. campbellensis (Petrie) Edgar, N.Z. J. Bot. 24: 467 (1986)

P. campbellensis Petrie, T.N.Z.I. 50: 211 (1918)

P. kirkii var. campbellensis (Petrie) Zotov, T.R.S.N.Z. 73: 236 (1943); 

Lectotype: WELT 66443! B. C. Aston Campbell Island, 12.1.1909 (designated by Edgar 1986 op. cit. p. 467).

Small tufts with close-packed culms 2-10 cm. Leaf-sheath glabrous. Ligule 0.3-1 mm. Leaf-blade 2-5 cm, stiff, inrolled. Panicle 1.5-5 cm. Spikelets 4.5-6.5 mm. Glumes unequal, elliptic-ovate, acute to subacute; lower 3-4 mm, upper 4-4.5 mm. Lemma 4-4.5 mm, elliptic-ovate, subacute to acute; midnerve occasionally very slightly excurrent. Palea 3-4 mm. Anthers 0.3-0.4 mm. 2 n = 28.

C. Upland rocky herbfield.

Endemic.

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