Citation: Kuntze, Rev. Pl. Gen. 2:775 (1891).

Synonymy: Saccharum fulvum R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 203 (1810); Pollinia fulva (R. Br.) Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:526 (1878), nom. illegit.

Common name: Sugar-grass, silky browntop.

Description:
A rather tall perennial, growing in tussocks, to 1 m or more high; leaves flat, glabrous or sparsely hairy; ligule ciliate or glabrous.

Racemes 2-4, sessile in a terminal cluster, 4-8 cm (rarely to 11 cm) long, coloured reddish-brown by the silky hairs of the glumes; spikelets in pairs, both fertile; glumes truncate, c. 5 mm long, the first 2-keeled, the second 1-nerved, both villous on the back; first lemma minute or 0; second (fertile) lemma hyaline and inconspicuous except for the bent and twisted awn, which is golden and 12-15 mm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 86; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 108.

Distribution:    All mainland States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year.

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

Biology: Grazed when young.

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