Citation: Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2:778 (1891).

Synonymy: Milium globosum Thunb., Fl. Jap. 49 (1784); I. australis R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 196 (1810).

Common name: Swamp millet.

Description:
Slender graceful perennial grass, to 30 cm or more, with a creeping rhizome; leaves flat, rather rough, blades 5-8 cm long; ligule a row of hairs; panicle often partly enclosed by the uppermost leaf sheath, very broad and loose, 5-12 cm long and 6-8 cm broad, with many filiform branches.

Spikelets ovoid, c. 2 mm long; glumes ovate, convex, 5-7-nerved, nearly equal, often purplish; lower floret male or bisexual, upper floret female or bisexual; lemmas hard and shiny.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3: pl. 24.

Distribution:  Grows in wet places. S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   New Zealand and Asia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Dec. — May.

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

Biology: Not important for grazing.

Author: Not yet available