Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Agrostis (Poaceae) 4b:254  
Tasmania has nine native and three introduced species of Agrostis. The characteristic features of this genus are that the inflorescence is a panicle (usually with widely spreading branches), the spikelets are small, flattened from side to side and have only one flower, the glumes are quite firm, the lemma and palea are membranous, and the palea is either absent or considerably smaller than the lemma. The native species are mostly of high altitude and well watered areas (even extending into rainforest), but one or two species occur in drier forests. The introduced species are weeds mostly of roadsides and pastures.

Another nine native species formerly included in Agrostis are now placed in Lachnagrostis. These differ from Agrostis in having the palea almost as long as the lemma.

 

 
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