Citation: C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1934:446 (1934).

Synonymy: Panicum praetervisum Domin, Bibhhca bot. 85:309 (1915); Urochloa praetervisa (Domin) Hughes, Kew Bull. 1923:319 (1923); P. adspersum sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:481 (1878), non Trin.

Common name: Large armgrass.

Description:
Annual; stems 18-60 cm high; leaf sheaths pubescent or becoming glabrous, villous at the orifice, rather loose, about as long as the blades which are lanceolate, more or less dilated and cordate at the base, 3-12 cm long, 4-15 mm broad, flat, scabrous-ciliate and often minutely undulate on the margin, sparsely pubescent or glabrous on the faces.

Panicle rather loose, 5-10 cm long, with 3-10 alternate erect racemes, of which the lowest are 2-6 cm long and simple or again shortly branched near the base, scabrous and sometimes with a few long hairs below the spikelets; rhachis triquetrous, c. 0.5 mm broad; spikelets almost always glabrous, 3.5-4 mm long, rather distant and almost appearing in 1 row, the lower ones usually in pairs, 1 subsessile, the other on a pedicel of 2-3 mm, the upper ones solitary; first glume subtruncate, 1.25-1.5 mm long, 3-5-nerved, second glume as long as the spikelet, 7-nerved; first lemma as long as the second glume, 5-nerved and containing a flat barren oblong hyaline palea nearly as long; fertile lemma c. 3.5 mm long, faintly rugulose, with a mucro 0.25-0.5 mm long.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 23b; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 66.

Distribution:    N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Dec. — July.

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

Biology: Palatable.

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