Citation: Bor, Grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India and Pakistan 445 (1960).

Synonymy: -Avena pumila Desf., Fl. Ariahr. 1:103 (1798); Trisetaria pumila (Desf.) Maire, Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. Afr. N. 33:93 (1942); Trisetum pumilum (Desf.) Kunth, Rev. Gram. 102 (1829).

Common name: Tiny bristle-grass.

Description:
Annual, usually small, with ascending stems; leaf sheaths pubescent.

Spikelets 3- or 4-flowered, c. 4 mm long, in a spike-like but rather loose panicle of 1-5 cm; rhachilla with tufts of hairs half as long as the lemmas and ending in a hairy bristle; glumes subequal, densely pubescent, 3-nerved, shorter than the florets; lemmas 5-nerved, 2-toothed, with a slender awn rising just below the notch formed by the teeth and about half as long as the lemma.

Published illustration: Meredith (1955) The grasses and pastures of South Africa, fig. 55.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to the Mediterranean, Asia and possibly South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: July — Oct.

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

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