Citation: S.T. Blake, Contr. Qld Herb. 13:20 (1972).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial, often stoloniferous, tufted; leaf blades flat; ligule of hairs.

Inflorescence a spike-like raceme; spikelets dorsally compressed, with 1 bisexual floret and a male or sterile floret below, bearded at the base; glumes 2, longer than the florets, more or less diverging upwards, subulate-acuminate, subequal, the first rigidly membranous, 5-7-nerved, the keels above with tubercle-based stiff hairs, the second glume very much indurated, smooth and shining, finely 11-13-nerved on the inside only; first lemma similar to the second glume in texture, conspicuously 3-5-nerved, 2-keeled, second (fertile) lemma a little shorter than the first, for the most part hardened, cartilaginous, the upper part more or less membranous, 5-7-nerved, with hyaline margins.

Distribution:  Monotypic.

Biology: No text

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