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Festuca megalura

Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 07/01/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Spikelets. Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 07/01/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Node. Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 07/01/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</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

vulpia hair grass, rat’s tail fescue

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Grasses

Habitat

Waste land, often stony.

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Festuca

Family

Poaceae

Authority

Festuca megalura L.

Synonyms

Vulpia myuros var. megalura

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Ecology

Origin

Eurasia, Mediterranean

Other information

Etymology

festuca: From the Latin festuca ‘stem’ or ‘blade of grass’

NVS code

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