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Austrostipa verticillata

Flowering plant (mostly empty glumes, seed fallen), garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Flowering (mostly empty glumes, seed fallen) in garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Foliage of non-flowering tussock;; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Inflorescence with green seeds, long awns; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Inflorescence showing verticillate branches; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Part of inflorescence with green seeds, long lemma awns; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Empty glumes (seeds fallen); garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Part of inflorescence, some glumes enclose seeds; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Stem base with extravaginal buds; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Node with sheath, ligule, base of leaf; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Leaf blade upper surface; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Leaf blade lowersurface; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Node showing leaf base & collar; garden, Marybank, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Culm detail.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 28/02/2015, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

slender bamboo grass; bamboo spear grass

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Grasses

Simplified description

Robust, tussock-forming. Flowering culms (stems) to 2 m tall, with branches in distinct whorls (verticils); flower lemmas with awns about 35 mm long. When seed falls, the two white-ish glumes remain, spread apart.

Flower colours

Green

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Austrostipa

Family

Poaceae

Authority

Austrostipa verticillata (Nees)S.W.L.Jacobs et J.Everett

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Ecology

Year naturalised

1878

Origin

E. Australia

Other information

Etymology

austrostipa: From the Latin australis ‘southern’, and stipa ‘fiber’

NVS code

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