Species

Aira elegans

Etymology

elegans: elegant

Common Name(s)

hair grass

Authority

Aira elegans Kunth

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

AIRELE

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.

Structural Class

Grasses

Year Naturalised

1957

Origin

Mediterranean

This page last updated on 10 Jun 2010