Species

Austrostipa verticillata

Etymology

Austrostipa: From the Latin australis 'southern', and stipa 'fiber'

Common Name(s)

Slender bamboo grass; bamboo spear grass

Authority

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

Family

Poaceae

Brief 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.

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

AUSVER

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

Flower Colours

Green

Year Naturalised

1878

Origin

E. Australia

This page last updated on 28 Feb 2016