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Chionochloa flavescens

Wikipedia Abstract

Chionochloa flavescens, known as Broad-leaved snow tussock or haumata in Māori. Endemic to New Zealand, there are several different sub species that look very similar. The leaves which are up to one centimetre wide is larger than most tussocks similar to it. The flower-plumes of about 30 cm appear around December/January and are quite open compared to C. conspicua and C. flavicans.
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Structure [1]  Grass

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Baber, M.J.; Craig, J.L. 2003. The relationship between foraging behaviour and habitat use by South Island takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) on Tiritiri Matangi Island. Notornis 50(2): 59-66.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0