Austrostipa scabra
Family
Poaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Grasses
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
AUSSCA
Conservation status
Not applicable
Year naturalised
1984
Origin
Australia
Etymology
austrostipa: From the Latin australis ‘southern’, and stipa ‘fiber’
scabra: Rough, covered with hard short rigid points