Dichelachne inaequiglumis (Hack.) Edgar & Connor
≡D. sciurea var. inaequiglumis Hack. in Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Fl. 874 (1906)
≡D. micrantha var. inaequiglumis (Hack.) Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 85: 353 (1915);
Holotype: W 26408! D. Petrie vicinity of Auckland [Western Park, Dec. 1895] (No 1068 to Hackel).
Rather small, slender extravaginal tufts, leaves « culms. Leaf-sheath dull or light brown, glabrous or minutely scabrid below collar, or lowermost sheaths scabrid throughout, sometimes with scattered hairs. Ligule 0.1-0.5 mm, membranous, truncate, ciliate, abaxially minutely scabrid. Leaf-blade to 15 cm × 1-2.5 mm, flat, tapered; margins minutely scabrid towards tip, occasionally both, or only adaxial, surface with short hairs, adaxially ribs scabrid. Culm 25-70 cm, internodes entirely glabrous, or slightly and minutely scabrid below purplish nodes. Panicle 10-30 cm, lax; branches few, slender, in ± distant whorls, naked below; rachis, branchlets and pedicels short-scabrid, visible between spikelets. Spikelets purple, few. Glumes elliptic-lanceolate, acute; lower (2.5)-3-3.5-(4.5) mm, < lemma, upper (3.5)-4-5-(5.5) mm, ≤ or rarely > lemma. Lemma 4-6 mm, minutely scabrid, tip shortly bifid; awn 13.5-18.5 mm, purple, inserted c. 0.5 mm below lemma tip, column ± straight, awn twisting 2-3 times. Palea 3.5-4 mm, narrow-linear, keels scabrid near ciliate tip. Callus hairs (0.5)- c. 1 mm. Rachilla prolongation to 0.2 mm. Lodicules 0.4-0.7 mm, cuneate, somewhat bilobed with a few apical hairs. Anthers 3, (0.9)-1.0-1.5-(2.5) mm in chasmogamous flowers, (0.1)-0.2-0.7 mm in cleistogamous flowers. Caryopsis 2-2.5 × 0.3-0.4 mm; embryo 0.2-0.4 mm; hilum 1.8-2.3 mm.
N.: common from North Cape to Auckland, one collection in Taranaki and common in Wellington Province especially in the Wairarapa and Hutt Valley; S.: common in Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland. Scrub, grassland, and modified sites in lowland and montane zones, common in low hill country in "danthonia" grassland.
Indigenous.
Also in eastern Australian states and Tasmania.
