Citation: Runem. ex Melderis, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 76:374 (1978).

Synonymy: Triticum farcturn Viv., Fl. Ital. Fragm. 1:28 (1808); T. junceum L., Cent. I. Pl. 6 (1755); Agropyron junceum (L.)P. Beauv., Agrost. 102 (1812); Elytrigia juncea (L.)Nevski, Acta Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS ser. 1, fasc. 1:17 (1933); Thinopyrum junceum (L.) Á. Löve, Taxon 29:351 ( 1980); Elytrigia junceiformis Á. & D. Löve, Rep. Univ. Inst. Appl. Sci. Reykjavik, Dept. Ag. Bull. set. B, 3:106 (1948); A. junceiforme (Á. & D. Löve,) Á. & D. Löve, Rep. Univ. Inst. Appl. Sci. Reykjavik, Dept Ag. Bull. ser, B, 3:106 (1948).

Common name: Sand couch-grass, sea wheat-grass.

Description:
Glabrous perennial, 25-80 cm high, with long creeping rhizomes; stems rigid; leaf blades flat with the margins inrolled, densely and minutely hairy on the upper surface.

Spike narrow, 5-20 cm long, rhachis readilly disarticulating; spikelets 3-9-flowered, 10-20 mm long; rhachilla not disarticulating; glumes a little shorter than the spikelet, subulate or lanceolate to oblong, awnless, 6-12-veined; lemma about as long as the glumes, obtuse or emarginate, unawned.

Distribution:    Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: not available.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Melderis (1980), Flora Europaea 5:197, is followed in treating this species in Elymus although other recent authors have placed it in Agropyron, Elytrigia or Thinopyrum.

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