Rytidosperma maculatum is a species of true grass in the subfamily Danthonioideae. It is endemic to New Zealand and was described as Notodanthonia maculatum in 1963 by Russian-New Zealand botanist Victor Zotov.
Ecology R. maculatum is also the host of Sphaerodothella danthoniae, a sac fungus that produces black, shiny leaf spots that occasionally coalesce into straight to irregular lines in the leaf surface of Rytidosperma.
Taxonomy
Etymology Rytidosperma: 'wrinkled seed' from the Greek 'rhytidos' = wrinkled and 'sperma' = seed
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