Polypogon magellanicus (Lam.) Finot

Agrostis magellanica is a species of grass. It has a circumpolar distribution and is native to many subantarctic islands in, and the coasts bordering, the Southern Ocean.^[1]

Description

Agrostis magellanica is a tufted perennial grass, varying in height from 50 to 450 mm and forming short grassland communities. The culms have purple nodes. The leaves are wiry. The panicles are 20–120 mm long, with many shiny, greenish-purple, distinctly awned spikelets.^[2]

Distribution and habitat

The grass is found in the south-west of New Zealand’s South Island and on the Antipodes, Auckland, and Campbell Islands. It is also native to Macquarie Island and the Falkland, Kerguelen, Crozet and Prince Edward Islands, as well as southern South America in Tierra del Fuego. In New Zealand it occupies subalpine and alpine habitats on stony or rocky ground. In the subantarctic islands it grows at lower altitudes in peat and among mosses and cushion plants, or as scattered small plants in fellfield.^[1][2]

References

Notes

Sources

• "Agrostis magellanica ". line. New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
• "Agrostis magellanica Lam". Flora of Australia Online. Australian Biological Resources Study. 1993. Retrieved 2011-01-23.

Agrostis antarctica é uma espécie de gramínea do gênero Agrostis, pertencente à família Poaceae.^[1]

Referências

Bibliografia

• Barrie, F. R. 2006. Report of the General Committee: 9. Taxon 55:796.
• Brummitt, R. K. 1995. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 43. Taxon 44:611–612.
• Jarvis, C. E. 1991. Seventy-two proposals for the conservation of types of selected Linnaean generic names, the report of Subcommittee 3C on the lectotypification of Linnaean generic names. Taxon 41:552–583.
• Leena Hämet-Ahti et al.: Retkeilykasvio. Helsinki: Luonnontieteellinen keskusmuseo, Kasvimuseo, 1998. ISBN 951-45-8167-9
• Nicolson, D. H. 1999. Report of the General Committee: 8. Taxon 48:373–374