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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Deyeuxia minor

Citation: F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:582 (1878).

Synonymy: Calamagrostis minor (F. Muell. ex Benth.) J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 43:27 (1919).

Common name: None

Description:
A slender grass, shorter than the preceding; leaves filiform; ligule rather long, truncate.

Panicle spike-like, cylindrical or slightly 2-lobed, 2-4 cm long; glumes broad, c. 4 mm long; lemma shorter, 3-3.5 mm long, broad, with 4 prominent scabrous nerves (the fifth only reaching to the insertion of the awn), 4-toothed at the summit, finely tuberculate in the lower half; awn inserted near the middle of the lemma, c. 4 mm long; tuff one-third as long as the lemma.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.


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