Citation: Domin, Biblthca Bot. 85:281 (1915).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Red Flinders-grass.

Description:
Leaf blades flat, 3-5 mm broad.

Floral sheaths 7-10 mm long, coriaceous, hard, rounded on the back and scarcely keeled, almost completely concealing the racemes and their spathes, with the exception of the awns; 4 involucral spikelets consisting of 1 glume each 3.5-4 mm long and 5-1 l-nerved, glabrous except ciliation near the summit, the second glume minute or 0, always without stamens, all on short pedicels about as long as or rather shorter than the tufts of hairs at their base; fertile spikelets c. 6 mm long, glabrous or with a few hairs at the base on a pedicel of c. 1 mm, the first glume 3-5 nerved between the keels, glabrous except ciliation near the margin; base of awn c. 4 mm long, entire or minutely 2-toothed; awn 17-20 mm long.

Published illustration: Gardner (1952) Flora of Western Australia 1:pl. 101.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA.   All mainland States except Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Jan.

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

Biology: Grazed but sometimes too coarse.

Author: Not yet available