Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 41:632 (1917).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Pepper grass, pigeon grass.

Description:
Annual or perennial, 30-70 cm high; leaf blades flat, usually 3-6 mm broad, the sheaths of the stem-leaves more or less beset with long tubercle-seated hairs, the main rhachis of the panicle often also hairy; ligule short, ciliate.

Panicle 10-25 cm long, compound, loose, the branches slender and the lowest 1 or 2 branches solitary, the upper ones mostly in pairs or 3's; spikelets usually in pairs, unequally pedicellate, glabrous, acuminate, 2-2.5 mm long; first glume hyaline, subtruncate, less than one-third of the length of the spikelet, with a prominent mid-nerve, second glume as long as the spikelet, 7-9-nerved; first lemma equal to the second glume, neuter, enclosing a palea, second (fertile) lemma with 7 vertical nerves, smooth and shining.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 53b.

Distribution:    All mainland States except Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — April.

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

Biology: Palatable.

Author: Not yet available