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Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Genus etymology: Zoysia = honorific for Karl von Zois zu Laibach 1756–1800
Species etymology: pacifica = from the Pacific Ocean
Photosynthetic type: C4 (warm season)
Nativity: naturalized - intentional
First recorded in Hawaiʻi: 1995
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Plant
Habit
Description
Plants rhizomatous. Sheaths glabrous, overlapping; ligules 0.07-0.25 mm; blades to 3 cm long, to 0.5 mm in diameter, patent, involute to strongly convolute (the margins overlapping), mostly glabrous abaxially, abaxial calluses 0.2-0.6 mm, hairs about 1 mm. Peduncles included or extending to 1 cm beyond the sheaths of the flag leaves. Racemes 0.4-2 cm, with 3-12 spikelets. Spikelets 2.2-2.9 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, lanceolate to linear, unawned or awned, awns to 0.5 mm. 2n = 40.
(Description source: Barkworth, M.E., Capels, K.M., Long, S. & Piep, M.B. (eds.) 2003. Flora of North America, north of Mexico. Volume 25. Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, Part 2. Oxford University Press, New York. 783 pp. http://floranorthamerica.org/Zoysia_matrella_var._pacifica )