Citation: Hughes, Kew Bull. 1923:315 (1923).

Synonymy: Panicum piligerum F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:477 (1878).

Common name: Hairy armgrass.

Description:
Erect or ascending mainly glabrous annual or perennial 30-60 cm high; leaves linear-lanceolate, flat, 3-6 mm broad, glabrous or very sparsely tubercle-based hairy; leaf sheaths loose or diverging from the stems; ligule of hairs.

Racemes usually 2 or 3, distant, above the leaves, spreading or reflexed, 2-5 cm long; spikelets in 2 rows along the flat rhachis, subsessile, 3-4.5 mm long; first glume about half as long as the spikelet or less, glabrous; second glume and first lemma similar to one another, pubescent and with longer hairs towards the margins in the upper half; fertile lemma subobtuse, scarcely, rugulose.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Jan. (S.Aust. record) but also at most times of the year elsewhere.

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

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