Citation: A. Camus, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 27:549 (1921).

Synonymy: Andropogon sericeus R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 201 (1810).

Common name: Silky blue-grass, Queensland blue-grass.

Description:
Erect grass 30-70 cm high; nodes bearded; leaves flat; ligule ciliolate, sometimes with long hairs rising from the blade behind it.

Racemes 2-7, 2.5-7 cm long, densely clothed with white silky hairs; first glume of sessile spikelets 4-5 mm long, 5-7-nerved between the 2 keels, densely bearded near the summit by an arch of long hairs seated on tubercles; awn 25-33 mm long; first glume of pedicellate spikelets 7-13-nerved between the keels; first lemma of pedicellate spikelets usually present.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 21b; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 84.

Distribution:  Said by S. T. Blake (1969) to occur on more clayey soils than D. affine and to be commoner in open grassland.   All mainland States and New Guinea. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year.

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

Biology: Not extensively grazed.

Author: Not yet available