Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1:24 (1804).

Synonymy: Deyeuxia billardieri (R. Br.) Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1:77 (1829); Calamagrostis aemula Steudel var. billardieri (R. Br.) Maiden & Betche, Census N.S.W. Pl. 21 (1916).

Common name: Blown grass.

Description:
Glabrous annual, 15-60 cm high; leaf blades flat and linear to almost filiform, very scabrous on the nerves, usually c. 20-25 cm long and 1-6 mm broad; ligule 4-8 mm long, obtuse, laciniate, scabrous.

Panicle divaricately branched, finally shortly exserted from the uppermost sheath, becoming very loose and straw-coloured, 10-30 cm long, rhachis and branches of panicle very scabrous; spikelets 5-7 mm long; glumes scabrous on the keel, the first rather longer; lemmas more than half as long (3.5-4.5 mm), glabrous except minute hairs on the upper part of the nerves, 4-nerved and 4-toothed, the 2 outer teeth much longer; awn geniculate, 7-8 mm long, rising from the middle or below the middle of the back of the lemma which is slightly longer than the palea; callus shortly bearded; bristle plumose, half the length of the palea.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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