Citation: Stapf, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9:597 (1920).

Synonymy: -Panicum notochthonum Domin, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 10:60 (1911); Urochloa notochthona (Domin) Hughes, Kew Bull. 1923:319 1923); p. helopus sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:476 1878), non Trim

Common name: Naked armgrass.

Description:
Erect annual or perennial; leaves lanceolate, flat, 4-6 mm broad, hairy, the sheaths loose, beset with long tubercle-seated hairs; ligule of short hairs.

Racemes 3-5 above the last leaf, spreading-erect, 2-4 cm long; spikelets in 2 rows along the flat rhachis which is scarcely I mm broad, c. 4.5 mm long, glabrous; first glume broad, 3-nerved, third of the length of the spikelet, second glume indistinctly nerved; first lemma indistinctly 7-nerved, sometimes enclosing a hyaline palea, the second and third equal; fertile lemma transversely rugulose, terminating in a short mucro c. 1 mm long.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 22c.

Distribution:    N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Feb. — May.

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

Biology: Grazed.

Author: Not yet available