Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 186 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Windmill grass.

Description:
Erect glabrous perennial, sometimes stoloniferous, 16-45 cm high; culms usually simple.

Spikes usually 6-9, spreading horizontally when in flower, usually 9-13 cm long; glumes hyaline or membranous, acuminate, with or without a short point, the first 1-2 mm long, the second 3-4 mm long; florets usually 2, often black; lemmas cartilaginous, the first (fertile) with 2 minute apical lobes, smooth or scabrous, pubescent on the upper margins, 3-4 mm long, awn 11-14.5 mm long, second lemma awned, truncate.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1968)Australian grasses 2:pl. 57; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 75.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   All mainland States except the N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Nov. — June.

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

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