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Common
name: Egmont red tussock |
Botanical
name: Chinochloa rubra var. inermis |
Family: Gramineae
(=Poaceae) |
Maximum height: 1.5
metres |
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Where found:
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- Mt Taranaki/Egmont tussock grassland and bogs from 900 - 1500
metres above sea level
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Description: |
- A red brown tussock
- Rigid, arching rolled leaves, greenish leaf blades 1m long x
1-4mm wide, easily split if bent backwards
- The flower stalks are the same length as the leaves
- This variety is endemic to Taranaki
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PHOTO: Ron Lambert

PHOTO: Magie Bayfield
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