Citation: Daveau, J. Bot., Paris 8:289 (1894).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Pitted lovegrass.

Description:
Annual 9.5-45 (rarely to 75) cm high, often aromatic; culms erect or geniculate, simple or branched, 2-4-noded, with a glandular ring close below the nodes; leaves mostly basal, with usually pit-like glands on the sheaths and sometimes on the lower surface of the blades; blades flat and up to 4.5 mm wide or involute, rigid, usually glabrous, scabrous on the upper surface and thickened margins.

Panicles terminal and often axillary; terminal panicle 4-9 x 2.5-5 (rarely to 15 x 8) cm, loose or sometimes congested, usually glandular; axils glabrous or almost so; primary branches up t6 5 cm long; axillary panicles usually contracted and partly exserted; spikelets 5-23 x 1-2 mm, closely 7-41-flowered, linearoblong-lanceolate, often olive-green; rhachilla persistent, internodes 0.5-0.7 mm long; glumes ovate, subacute, scaberulous upwards on the keel or smooth; the lower 0.5-1 mm long and the upper 1-1.8 mm long; lemmas 1.8-2.5 mm long, membranous, broadly elliptic (flattened), obtuse, notched or entire, papillose or scabrous, the keel scabrous upwards and with sparse glandular tubercles; palea oblong or elliptic, keels scaberulous in the upper part.

Grain compressed laterally, ovate to elliptic-oblong.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   N.T.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: probably in all months.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available