Citation: Jedwabn., Bot. Archiv. 4:328 (1923).

Synonymy: E. concinna sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:647 (1878), partly, non Steudel.

Common name: Neat lovegrass.

Description:
Annual 7-26 (rarely 2.5-55) cm high; culms erect to ascending or sometimes prostrate, usually with clusters of branches, 2- or 3-noded; leaves glabrous or sometimes pilose with delicate tubercle-based hairs; sheaths glabrous or bearded at the orifice with fine hairs up to 3.5 mm long; blades 3-10 cm x 2-3.5 mm (rarely to 26 cm x 5 mm), flat or loosely convolute-involute.

Panicles terminal and axillary; terminal panicle 2.5-6 (rarely 1.5-12) x 1-4 cm, spike-like, interrupted in the lower part or continuous; axis and branches sometimes pilose with tubercle-based hairs; primary branches up to 0.6 (rarely to 3.5) cm long, spikelet-bearing to the base; axillary panicles of compact often globular clusters of spikelets present throughout the plant; spikelets 11-16 x 2-5 (rarely 7.5-40) mm, loosely 10-54-flowered, ovate to linear-oblong; rhachilla jointed, fragile, straight or slightly flexuose, internodes 0.3-0.5 mm long; glumes persistent, membranous to coriaceous, acuminate, scabrous on the keel or smooth; the lower 1.2-2.2 mm long, linear to ovate; the upper 1.5-3 mm long, lanceolate to broadly ovate; lemmas 2-4.5 mm long, persistent, membranous to coriaceous or hardened, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, sometimes mucronulate, at first smooth, becoming granular-scabrid, scabrous upwards on the keel, sharply curved to gibbous in profile; palea linear-oblong, acute; keels scabrid with spinous hairs 0.2-0.8 mm long, thickened.

Grain compressed laterally, ovoid, biconvex in profile.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 97.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Jan — July.

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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