Citation: Á. Löve, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 95:468 (1984).

Synonymy: Festuca scabra Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:22 (1805); Agropyron scabrum (Labill.)P. Beauv., Agrost. 102 (1812).

Common name: Common (or rough) wheat-grass.

Description:
Perennial, with slender but stiff stems, c. 30 cm to over 1 m high; leaf blades narrow, fiat or filiform, scabrous on the edges.

Spikelets 1-10 on the rhachis, distant, loose in the upper part, 6-12-flowered, 5-7 cm long (including the awn), 2.5-3 cm long (excluding the awn); upper florets and awns finally divergent so that the spikelet becomes cuneate; spike loose, often drooping; rhachilla disarticulating between the florets; glumes lanceolate, the first 4-8 mm long, 3-nerved, the second 8-15 mm long, 3-5-nerved; lemmas narrow, rigid, scabrous and faintly nerved on the back, 8-12 mm long (excluding the awn), tapering into the awn, the margins incurved so that the florets are almost subulate; awns slender, scabrous, 2-4 cm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970)Australian grasses 3:pl. 69; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 51.

Distribution:    All States except the N.T.   New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Dec.

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

Biology: Palatable only on fertile soils.

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