Citation: Breb., Fl. Normand. edn 3:354 (1859).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Manna grass, (Australian) sweet grass.

Description:
Glabrous perennial, 10-50 cm high, with a creeping rootstock; blades flat, 1.5-8 mm broad, finally more finely striate than in G. australis and lacking transverse nerves; ligule becoming torn, c. 5 mm long.

Panicle narrow but loose, unilateral, 5-25 cm long, the distant slender solitary or twin branches bearing 1-6 spikelets; spikelets at first almost cylindrical, later broader and flattish, 13-25 mm long, 8-15-flowered; glumes thin, acute to subobtuse, the first 1.5-2.5 mm long, the second 2.5-4 mm long, both 1-nerved; lemmas prominently toothed with 3-5 obtuse or acute teeth, 3.5-4.5 mm long, 7-nerved, scabrid.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, NL, SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Jan. — May.

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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