Citation: Smith, Pl. Icon. t. 32 (1789).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Perennial veldt grass.

Description:
Perennial, with often a creeping branched rhizome; culms 30-70 cm high; leaf blades usually flat, variable in size; panicle lax, narrow, often less than 15 cm long; spikelets 4-8 mm long; glumes a little shorter than the spikelet, about equal, turning purple; sterile lemmas slightly longer, the first shorter and narrower, not corrugated, both softly hairy and the first bearded at the base, the second shortly awned and with 2 small scales at the base; fertile lemma slightly shorter than the sterile lemmas, obtuse; palea hyaline; stamens 6.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 23; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p, 9l,

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust..   Native to southern Africa. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Oct. — Nov.

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

Biology: No text

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