Citation: Turner, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., set. 2, 8:535 (1894).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Small-flowered lovegrass.

Description:
Perennial 12-76 cm high, with a pubescent slightly thickened base; culms simple, thin, wiry, 4-6-noded, hairy on nodes and close below or the hairs wearing off with maturity; leaves often glaucous; sheaths often ciliolate on the margins in the upper part; blades flat and up to 2.3 mm wide or convolute, pilose to hirsute with simple and tubercle-based hairs on the upper or both surfaces.

Panicle 6.5-20 x 0.5 -4 cm, occupying up to half the length of the plant, spike-like or loosely contracted; axils pilose or glabrous; primary branches to 5 cm long, much divided and spikelet-bearing throughout; spikelets slightly compressed laterally or turgid, 1-2 x 0.7 -1 mm, closely 3-5-flowered; rhachilla jointed, fragile, readily disarticulating downwards, straight, internodes 0.1-0.2 mm long; glumes persistent, ovate or oblong-elliptic, subacute or obtuse, strongly keeled, scaberulous on the keel and some-times on the margins otherwise smooth, 0.6-1 mm long; lemmas 0.6-0.7 mm long, ovate-orbicular, broadly obtuse, sparsely scaberulous on the keel and sometimes at the base; lateral nerves ribbed, or sometimes absent; paleas deciduous, oblong-elliptic, subacute to broadly obtuse; keels scaberulous almost from the base or smooth, ribbed; flaps almost as wide as the body.

Grain scarcely compressed, obtusely trigonous, obovate to oblong or elliptic.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 40b; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 101.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT.   All mainland States except Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: April — May.

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

Biology: Not palatable.

Author: Not yet available