Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Poa walkeri Kirk, T.N.Z.I. 17: 224 (1885)

≡Atropis walkeri (Kirk) Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Fl. 203  (1925); 

Lectotype: WELT 66495! T. Kirk The Old Neck, Stewart Island, 31 Dec 1883 (designated by Edgar 1996 op. cit. p. 25).

=Glyceria novae-zealandiae Petrie, T.N.Z.I. 33: 329 (1901)

≡Atropis novae-zealandiae (Petrie) Hack. in Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Fl. 915  (1906)

≡Puccinellia novae-zealandiae (Petrie) Allan et Jansen, T.R.S.N.Z. 69: 266 (1939); 

Lectotype: WELT 68550! T. Kirk Riverton, Jan 1887 (No 1477 to Hackel) (designated by Edgar 1996 op. cit. p. 25).

Erect, bluish green or light green to pale brownish green, stiff, dense, very leafy tufts, (6)-10-50 cm, with uppermost leaves usually overtopping culms; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath glabrous, firmly membranous, striate. Ligule 0.6-3 mm, obtuse or truncate, or sometimes tapered centrally and acute, glabrous, entire. Leaf-blade 5-25 cm × 5-10 mm, folded, or sometimes almost flat and wider, abaxially glabrous, adaxially shallowly ribbed, ribs sparsely scabrid; margins scabrid, tip smooth, ± firmly acute, sometimes subobtuse and ± apiculate. Culm usually hidden by sheaths, internodes glabrous. Panicle ± overtopped by leaves, linear-lanceolate, erect, contracted, dense; branches stiff, erect, sometimes ± spreading at maturity. Spikelets (3)-5-9 mm, 2-5-flowered, bluish green or sometimes purplish. Glumes ± unequal, narrow-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, subacute; lower 1.5-3.6-(4.2) mm, 1-3-nerved, upper 2-4.5-(5) mm, 3-5-nerved. Lemma 3-5 mm, 5-7-nerved, elliptic-oblong, usually with a few hairs at base and on nerves near base or to c. midway. Palea ≤ lemma. Rachilla 0.8-1.5-(1.8) mm. Anthers (0.6)-0.8-1.5 mm. Caryopsis (1.5)-1.8-2.6 × 0.4-0.8 mm.