Citation: S.T. Blake, Proc. R. Soc. Qld 49:82 (1938).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Leaf blades flat, 4-5 mm broad; floral leaf sheaths 12-15 mm long, flattened, keeled, herbaceous.

Racemes more or less exserted from the sheaths; the 4 involucral spikelets c. 4 mm long, each with 2 glumes of which the first is 7-9-nerved and minutely hairy or almost glabrous, all on short stout pedicels which are much exceeded by the tufts of hair at their base; fertile spikelet 5-5.5 mm long, with a beard of long erect hairs at its base and with a very short pedicel scarcely 0.5 mm long, the first glume 3-5-nerved between the 2 keels, pubescent near the summit, the awn 15-18 mm long.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT.   W.Aust.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Nov.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available