taxonID	type	description	language	source
2314B37FF6345879B4FBC7025792EEB2.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Simplicia laxa Kirk (fide Zotov 1971)	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
ECF33F354D3C51EFB25BBEA2C1B38E34.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype. ' Mt Arthur' A. McKay s. n., 1874, (WELT SP 059605!) (fide Zotov 1971).	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
ECF33F354D3C51EFB25BBEA2C1B38E34.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Named by Zotov (1971) for John Buchanan FLS (1819 - 1898), Scottish born draughtsman, and New Zealand's first government employed botanist (Taylor 2002). Buchanan first described Simplicia buchananii as a species of Poa, Poa uniflora Buchanan but that species name was preoccupied (Poa uniflora Muhl.) (Zotov 1971).	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
ECF33F354D3C51EFB25BBEA2C1B38E34.taxon	description	Description (Fig. 5). Plants gracile, tufted, 0.40 - 0.60 (- 1.0) m tall. Culms 0.40 - 0.80 m long, bright green when fresh, wiry, erect (sometimes with apices weakly pendant), culm internodes 3 - 5, elongated, glabrous; internodes + / - equal in length to subtending leaf-sheaths. Culm-nodes slightly swollen when fresh, glossy orange-brown to dark red-brown (0.1 -) 0.3 - 0.4 (- 0.5) mm long. Basal leaf-sheaths stramineous or dull brown, membranous, strongly ribbed, usually glabrous, sometimes scabrid on ribs or evenly, finely pubescent; hairs when present retrorse to patent, minute (0.06 - 0.08 mm long); mid stem and upper leaf-sheaths stramineous to green, membranous, strongly ribbed, glabrous. Ligule 2.0 - 3.5 (- 4.0) mm, membranous, lanceolate, apex erose to very deeply lacerate; glabrous. Leaf-blade 100 - 200 x (1.8 -) 3.0 (- 4.0) mm, green to yellow-green, flat, linear-lanceolate with acuminate apices, finely ribbed; adaxial ribs finely scabrid, abaxial ribs glabrous; margins smooth. Panicle (40 -) 160 (- 180) mm long, linear; rachis glabrous, branches (10 -) 30 (- 36) mm long, erect, glabrous (sometimes bearing minute antrorse prickle-teeth near pedicels), bearing spikelets almost to base, pedicels 0.6 - 1.0 (- 1.2) mm long, + / - glabrous (sometimes bearing sparse, minute, antrorse prickle-teeth), + / - appressed to branchlets. Spikelets 2.8 - 3.0 mm, 1 (- 2) - flowered, lanceolate, light green to stramineous. Glumes green (+ / - hyaline), glabrous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, acute to subacute, 1 - nerved, lower and upper glume margins entire, ciliate; lower glume 0.3 - 1.0 mm, upper glume 1.0 (- 1.6) mm. Lemma 2.6 - 3.0 mm, light green to grey, scabrid (densely covered in minute prickle-teeth), 3 (- 5) - nerved, ovate-lanceolate, acute to mucronate, sometimes with a minute subapical awnlet 0.06 - 0.08 mm long. Palea 2.4 - 2.8 mm, scabrid (densely covered in minute prickle-teeth), lanceolate, pale green to green, pubescent, 1 - 2 - nerved. Rachilla prolongation 0.3 - 0.5 mm, filiform, hyaline, glabrous. Stamens 3. Filaments 0.3 mm long, hyaline. Anthers 0.7 - 1.5 mm, purple or yellow. Ovary narrowly ovoid to weakly trigonous 1.0 - 1.25 mm long, green, + / - glabrous (basal portion sometimes minutely ciliate); styles apical, 0.10 - 0.25 mm, hyaline; stigmas plumose, white. Caryopsis 1.3 - 1.5 mm long, laterally compressed, orange when mature. Chromosome number: 2 n = 28 (Zotov 1971).	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
ECF33F354D3C51EFB25BBEA2C1B38E34.taxon	materials_examined	Specimens seen. North-West Nelson, Gouland Downs, A. P. Druce s. n., Jan 1969, WELT SP 069213; North-West Nelson, Cobb Valley, Chaffey's Stream, A. M. Hamilton s. n., 23 Feb 1965, CHR 119546; North-West Nelson, Peel Range, above Lake Henderson, A. P. Druce s. n., Mar 1982, CHR 369973; North-West Nelson, below Balloon Hut, I. M. Ritchie s. n., 29 Mar 1967, CHR 175738; North-West Nelson, Kahurangi National Park, Cundy Creek, M. J. Thorsen 101 / 09, 11 Apr 2009, AK 304802; North-West Nelson, Kahurangi National Park, west of Gordon's Pyramid, M. J. Thorsen 106 / 09, 12 Apr 2009, AK 305801; North-West Nelson, Mt Arthur,? A. Mackay s. n., c. 1879, CHR 13277; North-West Nelson, South Arthur Range, west side of Baton Saddle, A. P. Druce 478, Feb 1991, CHR 469403; North-West Nelson, Lockett Range, near Ruby Lake, A. P. Druce s. n., Jan 1982, CHR 387666 - 387667; North West of Mt FZ (between Glenroy and Sheriff Rivers), A. P. Druce s. n., 13 Mar 1984, CHR 394262.	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
ECF33F354D3C51EFB25BBEA2C1B38E34.taxon	distribution	Distribution (Fig. 1). Simplicia buchananii is endemic to North-West Nelson, South Island.	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
6C11A24840EC5A71A617DAB8DD4E63FE.taxon	materials_examined	Lectotype. ' Waikouaiti, Otago' D. Petrie s. n., n. d. (WELT SP 043017!) (fide Zotov 1971)	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
6C11A24840EC5A71A617DAB8DD4E63FE.taxon	materials_examined	Isolectotype. ' Waikouaiti, Otago, D. Petrie s. n., n. d. (WELT SP 043021!) (fide Zotov 1971)	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
6C11A24840EC5A71A617DAB8DD4E63FE.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Kirk (1897) did not explain the meaning of his species epithet ' laxa ' though his intent is clear from his protologue where he describes the new species as having ' weak, decumbent, flaccid' culms. The epithet is derived from Latin ' laxus ' meaning ' loosely arranged' as in ' wide, loose' structures or growth (Taylor 2002).	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
6C11A24840EC5A71A617DAB8DD4E63FE.taxon	description	Description (Fig. 6). Plants trailing forming thick sprawling mats or diffuse interconnected patches up to 0.6 m across. Culms 0.40 - 0.80 m long, green to pale- green when fresh, wiry, decumbent, with the apices weakly erect, culm internodes 4 - 8, elongated, sparsely (sometimes densely) hairy, or glabrous; hairs weakly flexuous, patent up 0.18 mm long; internodes usually shorter than subtending leaf-sheaths. Culm-nodes conspicuously swollen when fresh, maroon-black to black (0.13 -) 0.18 - 0.30 mm long, rooting freely on contact with ground. Basal leaf-sheaths glossy light brown to amber, membranous, ribbed, abaxially (often copiously) pubescent on ribs (and usually on interstices), hairs 0.20 - 0.25 (- 0.30) mm long, patent to retrorse; mid stem and upper leaf-sheaths pale-green to green, membranous, ribbed, abaxially pubescent on ribs (and sometimes on interstices), hairs copious, 0.35 - 0.40 mm long patent, mostly straight, sometimes curved or weakly flexuous. Ligule 2.8 - 3.5 (- 10) mm, membranous, lanceolate, apex erose to very deeply lacerate; abaxially sparsely to copiously hairy; hairs 0.20 - 0.24 mm long. Leaf-blade (100 -) 160 (- 200) x (2.8 -) 3.0 (- 3.6) mm, green to dark green, flat, linear-lanceolate, finely ribbed; adaxial ribs finely pubescent, abaxially glabrous (sometimes sparsely hairy at leaf base; margins + / - smooth, sometimes irregularly finely scabrid and sparsely hairy. Panicle (40 -) 100 (- 150) mm long, linear to + / - pyramidal, usually with basal branch or branch pair reflexed (often unevenly so); rachis glabrous, branches (20 -) 40 (- 60) mm long, finely, antrorsely hairy (hairs 0.20 - 0.25 mm long), binate, initially contracted but as inflorescences mature, spreading to reflexed, devoid of spikelets in lower half; pedicels appressed to branchlets, 1.00 - 1.06 mm long, finely pubescent. Spikelets 2.8 - 3.2 mm, 1 - flowered, lanceolate, light green. Glumes pale green (+ / - hyaline), glabrous, broadly ovate-lanceolate to ovate, acute, 1 - nerved, nerve extending beyond apex as a minute mucro, lower glume margins entire (sometimes with apex erose), ciliate towards apex, upper glume margins usually erose (sometimes subentire), ciliate; lower glume 0.5 - 0.8 mm, upper glume 0.75 - 1.0 (- 1.2) mm. Lemma 2.8 - 3.2 (- 3.4) mm, light green to grey-green (sometimes purple-green), + / - evenly, densely pubescent, lanceolate, acute, apex mucronate (mucro 0.10 - 0.25 mm long), 3 (- 5) - nerved (nerves obscured by hairs); lemma hairs antrorse appressed, sericeous, 0.12 - 0.13 mm long. Palea 2.4 - 2.8 mm, lanceolate, pale green to green, pubescent, 1 - 2 - nerved, (nerves obscured by hairs). Rachilla prolongation 1.25 - 1.30 mm, narrowly lanceolate, hyaline, margins minutely ciliate. Stamens 3. Filaments 0.20 - 0.25 mm long, hyaline. Anthers 0.30 - 0.45 mm, yellow. Ovary narrowly ovoid to weakly trigonous 1.0 - 1.25 mm long, dark green, + / - glabrous (basal portion sometimes minutely ciliate); styles apical, 1.10 - 1.25 mm, hyaline; stigmas plumose, white. Caryopsis 1.4 - 1.5 mm long, laterally compressed, orange-brown when mature. Chromosome number: 2 n = 28 (Zotov 1971, I. M. Ritchie s. n., CHR 202752)	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
6C11A24840EC5A71A617DAB8DD4E63FE.taxon	materials_examined	Specimens seen. Karamea, Honeycomb Cave, P. Wardle s. n., 22 Jan 1985, CHR 489550; Karamea Ecological District, Karamea, Kahurangi National Park, Honeycomb Cave, P. J. de Lange 4774, 6 Dec 2000, AK 252968; Otago, Taieri County, near Deep Stream Hotel, Rock & Pillar Road, D. Petrie s. n., Feb 1877, WELT SP 010498, WELT SP 043018, WELT SP 043020 A, WELT SP 043020 B, WELT SP 043020 C, WELT SP 069211; Old Man Ecological District, Old Man Range, Castle Rock Summit, P. J. de Lange 7859, 18 Jan 2008, AK 304848 (Duplicate: US); Old Man Ecological District, Old Man Range, Castle Rock Summit (south side), P. J. de Lange 7858, 18 Jan 2008, AK 304847; Macraes Ecological District, Nenthorn, Deighton Stream tributary, ' John's Cave', P. J. de Lange 7206 & M. J. Thorsen, 15 Jan 2008, AK 301580; Macraes Ecological District, Nenthorn, Upper Emerald Stream, P. J. de Lange 7835 & M. J. Thorsen, 15 Jan 2008, AK 304808; Macraes Ecological District, Nenthorn, Upper Emerald Stream, P. J. de Lange 7836 & M. J. Thorsen, 15 Jan 2008, AK 304809; Macraes Ecological District, Nenthorn, Emerald Stream, ' Old Otagense site', P. J. de Lange 7856 & M. J. Thorsen, 15 Jan 2008, AK 304845 (Duplicate: US); Summerhills Station, 3 O'Clock Stream, M. J. Thorsen 100 / 07, 14 May 2007, CHR 591912; Nevis Valley, Barn Creek, G. Loh s. n., 26 Nov 1994, CHR 509148. CULTIVATED: Ex. Cult., Karamea Ecological District, Karamea, Kahurangi National Park, Honeycomb Cave, P. J. de Lange 6104, 3 Sep 2004, AK 288071 (Duplicate: HO). Macraes Ecological District, north-east of Nenthorn, Macraes, Emerald Stream, T Whitaker Falcon Site, M. J. Thorsen s. n., 30 Mar 2006, AK 295631; Ex. Cult., Central Otago, Old Man Range, Castle Rock, I. M. Ritchie s. n., 25 Oct 1969 (grown on and harvested by V. D. Zotov on 31 Dec 1970 as G 8128).	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
6C11A24840EC5A71A617DAB8DD4E63FE.taxon	distribution	Distribution (Fig. 1). As recircumscribed here Simplicia laxa is now endemic to the South Island. Nevertheless, there are a few historical collections held in world herbaria that suggest that Simplicia felix and Simplicia laxa once grew sympatrically in the eastern Wairarapa. de Lange (2016) has shown that these herbarium specimens are the result of accidental mixing of unmounted Thomas Kirk, North Island (Simplicia felix) and Donald Petrie, South Island (Simplicia laxa) specimens, and mislabelling by Thomas Cheeseman and, possibly, Victor Zotov, rather than genuine North Island wild occurrences of Simplicia laxa. Simplicia laxa is currently known from one site near Karamea, North-West Nelson (Honeycomb Cave) and otherwise from 10 sites in Northern and Central Otago (Smissen et al. 2011). This disjunct distribution is unlikely to be natural, however, it more likely reflects the loss of interconnecting habitat as well as the difficulty of recognising this species in the field.	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
654DB5F08D8E5F558A7AAEF254C7C1BD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from Simplicia laxa by dark brown, prominently ribbed leaf sheaths; mostly glabrous, strongly ribbed mid-stem to upper-stem leaf sheaths; longer culm internodes; narrower, glabrous (sometimes with the adaxial ribs finely scabrid) leaves; shorter panicles (up to 80 mm long) with scabrid branches; minutely scabrid lemma and smaller filiform rachilla prolongation bearing cilia only at the apex.	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
654DB5F08D8E5F558A7AAEF254C7C1BD.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype (Fig. 7). ' Eastern Wairarapa Ecological Region and District, Te Kanuka Farm Station, Kaumingi Stream' P. J. de Lange 12167, J. R. Rolfe & T. Silbery, 27 Feb 2014, (AK 351325) Isotypes. CAN, CHR, F, WAIK, WELT, US	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
654DB5F08D8E5F558A7AAEF254C7C1BD.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet ' felix ' is taken from the Latin for ' lucky ' (N. G. Walsh, MEL pers comm., 14 January 2016) as in ' lucky find ' in reference to the circumstances of this species' discovery; that came about through the desire to get a name on an unremarkable little tuft of grass that was discovered fortuitously near Mangaweka, Central North Island by CCO on 29 January 2005 (Ogle 2010).	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
654DB5F08D8E5F558A7AAEF254C7C1BD.taxon	description	Description (Fig. 8). Plants forming flaccid, diffuse, often much interconnected, sprawling patches up to 1 m across. Culms 0.25 - 0.65 m long, green to dark brown when fresh, wiry, initially decumbent, becoming ascendant with the apices weakly erect, culm internodes 5 - 8, elongated, glabrous; internodes longer than subtending leaf-sheaths. Culm-nodes conspicuously swollen when fresh, dark green-brown to brown-black 0.15 - 0.25 mm long, rooting freely on contact with ground. Basal leaf-sheaths dull dark brown, membranous, strongly ribbed, usually abaxially pubescent (sometimes glabrous) on ribs, hairs 0.10 - 0.15 mm long, patent to retrorse; mid stem and upper leaf-sheaths pale-green to green, membranous, strongly ribbed, glabrous (rarely abaxially ribs finely pubescent toward sheath apex). Ligule 2.0 - 2.6 mm, membranous, lanceolate, apex entire, or deeply lacerate; glabrous, or with both surfaces hairy; hairs 0.15 - 0.18 mm long. Leaf-blade (20 -) 40 (- 60) x (1.0 -) 1.2 - 2.4 (- 3.0) mm, yellow-green to dark green, flat, narrow linear-lanceolate, finely ribbed, ribs smooth (sometimes minutely scabrid); margins minutely scabrid. Panicle 20 - 40 (- 80) mm long, linear to + / - pyramidal, usually with basal branch or branch pair reflexed (often unevenly so); rachis glabrous (sometimes bearing a few minute prickle-teeth), branches 20 - 30 mm long, scabrid, binate, initially contracted but as inflorescences mature, spreading to reflexed, devoid of spikelets in lower half to two-thirds; pedicels appressed to branchlets, 0.20 - 0.25 (0.30) mm long, finely pubescent. Spikelets 2.7 - 3.0 mm, 1 - flowered, lanceolate, light green. Glumes pale green (+ / - hyaline), glabrous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, acute, 1 - nerved, nerve sometimes extending beyond apex as a minute mucro, margins initially entire, becoming erose near apex, very sparsely ciliate in upper third; lower glume 0.5 - 0.6 mm, upper glume 0.75 - 0.8 (- 0.9) mm. Lemma 2.0 - 2.8 (- 3.0) mm, light green to cream, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, apex mucronate (mucro 0.1 mm long), 5 - nerved, the inner 3 nerves conspicuous, the outer less prominent; nerves bearing evenly spaced minute (0.02 - 0.03 mm long), antrorse, appressed prickle-teeth, interstices usually densely (sometimes sparsely) covered with minute antrorse prickle-teeth. Palea 2.0 - 2.8 mm, lanceolate, green to purple-green, 1 - 2 - nerved, nerves bearing evenly spaced minute prickle (0.02 - 0.03 mm long) teeth, interstices usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely covered with minute prickle-teeth. Rachilla prolongation 0.8 mm, filiform, hyaline, glabrous except for sparse cilia cresting prolongation apex. Stamens 3. Filaments 0.6 - 0.9 mm long, hyaline. Anthers 1.0 - 1.2 mm, yellow. Ovary narrowly ovoid to weakly trigonous 1.0 mm long, pale green, glabrous; styles apical, 1.0 - 1.2 mm, hyaline; stigmas plumose, white. Caryopsis 1.2 - 1.4 (- 1.5) mm long, laterally compressed, pale orange to orange-brown when mature. Chromosome number: 2 n = 28 (Murray et al. 2005, P. J. de Lange 5897, AK 285424 - as Simplicia laxa)	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
654DB5F08D8E5F558A7AAEF254C7C1BD.taxon	materials_examined	Specimens seen. New Zealand, North Island: Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, North of Taihape, north of Paengaroa Road and east of State Highway One, Ngawaka Stream, ' Stevies Bush', P. J. de Lange 7834 & C. C. Ogle, 29 Feb 2008, AK 304807 (Duplicates: CHR, US); Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, North of Taihape, south of Paengaroa Road and east of State Highway One, C. C. Ogle 4955, 17 Feb 2006, AK 295628; Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, North of Taihape, south of Paengaroa Road and east of State Highway One, C. C. Ogle 4954, 17 Feb 2006, AK 295627; Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, North of Taihape, south of Paengaroa Road and east of State Highway One, ' Campbells Bush' P. J. de Lange 7832 & C. C. Ogle, 29 Feb 2008, AK 304805; Taihape, Oraukura Stream, C. C. Ogle 5625, 6 Apr 2008, AK 306012; Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, Taihape Scenic Reserve, Hautapu, P. J. de Lange 7833, C. C. Ogle & V. McGlynn, 28 Feb 2008, AK 304806; Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, Taihape Scenic Reserve, Hautapu, C. C. Ogle 4958 & V. McGlynn, 7 Mar 2006, AK 297357; Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, Rangitikei, Kawhatau Valley, Toetoe Road, C. C. Ogle 4893, V. McGlynn & G. La Cock, 13 Dec 2005, AK 297353; Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, Rangitikei, Kawhatau Valley, Toetoe Road, P. J. de Lange 7831, C. C. Ogle & V. McGlynn, 28 Feb 2008, AK 304804; Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, Rangitikei, Kawhatau River, Toetoe Road, ' Ben Moi' farm, C. C. Ogle 4734, 29 Jan 2005, AK 289755 (Duplicate: CHR); Eastern Wairarapa Ecological Region and District, Te Kanuka Farm Station, Swamp Ridge Covenant, P. J. de Lange 12165, J. R. Rolfe & T. Silbery, 27 Feb 2014, AK 351320 (Duplicates lodged in: CHR. WELT, US); Eastern Wairarapa Ecological Region and District, Te Kanuka Farm Station, Upper Kaumingi Stream, P. J. de Lange 12168, J. R. Rolfe & T. Silbery, 27 Feb 2014, AK 351330 (Duplicates lodged in: CAN, WELT, US); Wairarapa, Ruamahanga, T. Kirk s. n., n. d., WELT SP 043016; Ruamahanga Valley, T. Kirk s. n., 26 Jan 1880, WELT SP 043022; Eastern Wairarapa Ecological Region and District, Admiral Road, Wainuoru River, Te Kowhai, Moetapu Bush, P. J. de Lange 12160, J. R. Rolfe & T. Silbery, 26 Feb 2014, AK 351290 (Duplicates: WELT, US); Eastern Wairarapa, Longbush, Tawhiriwaimanuka Stream. Ahipaku QE II Covenant, J. R. Rolfe 15017, 9 Dec 2015, AK 360429 (Duplicate: WELT). South Island: South-East of Duntroon, Prydes Gully Road (Ngapara, The Knolls), B. P. J. Molloy s. n., 18 Dec 1991, CHR 616708; Duntroon Ecological District, Ngapara, The Knolls, P. J. de Lange 1340 & B. P. J. Molloy, 7 May 1992, AK 208577 (Duplicates: CHR, WAIK, WELT). Cultivated: Ex. Cult., Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, Rangitikei, Kawhatau Valley, Toetoe Road, P. J. de Lange 6791, 30 Nov 2006, AK 297927; Ex. Cult., Rangitikei Ecological Region and District, Rangitikei, Kawhatau Valley, Toetoe Road, P. J. de Lange 6824, 23 Dec 2006, AK 298065; Ex. Cult., Duntroon Ecological District, Ngapara, The Knolls, P. J. de Lange 5897, 23 Feb 2004, AK 285424; Ex. Cult., Duntroon Ecological District, Ngapara, The Knolls, P. J. de Lange 6103, 3 Sep 2004, AK 288070.	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
654DB5F08D8E5F558A7AAEF254C7C1BD.taxon	distribution	Distribution (Fig. 1). Simplicia felix has so far been collected from the North and South Islands, from the current northern limit at Ngawaka Stream, near Taihape, North Island to Ngapara, North Otago, South Island. In the North Island the species has been found in two broad geographic areas, around Taihape-Mangaweka, and in the eastern Wairarapa. In the South Island, Simplicia felix is so far known only from the one location at Ngapara.	en	de Lange, Peter J., Smissen, Rob D., Rolfe, Jeremy R., Ogle, Colin C. (2016): Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus. PhytoKeys 75: 119-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.75.10328
