Species

Puccinellia distans

Etymology

Puccinellia: After the italian botanist Benedetto Puccinelli (1808 - 1850).
distans: distant (widely spaced female flowers

Common Name(s)

reflexed salt grass

Authority

Puccinellia distans (L.) Parl.

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

PUCDIS

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

Structural Class

Grasses

Year Naturalised

1906

Origin

Eurasia

This page last updated on 29 Mar 2010