Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Te Ara Crescent, A.R. Arnold's garden
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, below Te Ara Crescent, A.R. Arnold's garden
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 141/96
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
29-MAY-1996
Start date:
1996-05-29
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Cultivation relic by hedge in shade.
Notes:
Clump-forming grass with dense mat of thick rhizomes, not creeping. Leaves conspicuously plicate. Inflorescence of a solitary spike (only one present). Spikelets c.3mm long, purplish. Upper lemma and palea clasping, hard. Species normally paniculate but this plant presumably depauperate because of hostile conditions.