Volume V (2000) - Flora of New Zealand Gramineae
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Eragrostis leptostachya

ξE. leptostachya (R.Br.) Steud.

ξE. leptostachya (R.Br.) Steud. ξThe single specimen consists of a slender tuft, c. 75 cm. Leaf-sheath keel minutely glandular. Leaf-blade to c. 25 cm × 6 mm; margins eglandular. Culm with glandular ring below nodes. Panicle 18-20 × 7 cm; branches ± horizontally spreading, bearing few spikelets on short glandular pedicels. Spikelets to 7 × 1.5 mm, 4-10-flowered, leaden green, linear-lanceolate. Lemma c. 1.7 mm. Stamens 3; anthers 0.5 mm. Caryopsis c. 0.8 mm, rectangular, truncate. An Australian species once collected on Mahuki Id (near Great Barrier Id) A. E. Wright 6878 2 Jan 1985 (AK 171282).

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