Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
Tribe VIII. Festugeæ
Tribe VIII. Festugeæ.
Spikelets 2-many-flowered, usually panicled or racemed. Flowering glumes generally exceeding the outer glumes, awnless or with 1 or several straight awns, which are usually terminal, rarely dorsal. Rhachilla produced beyond the uppermost flower.
page 842Tall reed-like grasses with silvery panicles. Flowering glumes covered with long hairs, membranous. Rhachilla long, glabrous | 25. Arundo. |
Spikelets 3–5 flowered, usually rounded on the back. Flowering glumes 2–3-toothed, middle tooth often mucroniform or slightly awned | 26. Triodia. |
Panicle spiciform. Spikelets 2–5-flowered, shining, compressed. Flowering glumes scarious, mucronate or shortly awned | 27. Kœleria. |
Spikelets 2-many-flowered, compressed. Flowering glumes keeled at the back, acute or obtuse, awnless, often (together with the rhachilla) clothed at the base with tangled hairs. Hilum punctiform | 28. Poa. |
Spikelets 3-many-flowered. Flowering glumes rounded at the back, obtuse, awnless, 5–9-nerved. Lodicules distinct. Hilum punctiform | 29. Atropis. |
Spikelets 2-many-flowered. Flowering glumes rounded on the back, more rigid than in Poa, acute or awned. Ovary naked or hairy. Hilum long, linear | 30. Festuca. |
Spikelets 3-many-flowered. Flowering glumes rounded on the back or slightly keeled, mucronate or awned, 5–9-nerved. Ovary villous at the top | 31. Bromus. |