Citation: Hughes, Kew Bull. 1923:318 (1923).

Synonymy: P. gracile sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 71 (1943), partly, non (R. Br.) Hughes.

Common name: None

Description:
Tufted annual, usually 20-50 cm high, with erect or ascending stems; leaf blades glabrous, 3-10 cm long, to 3 mm broad, flat or loosely convolute.

Panicle often 10-15 cm long, spike-like, basally enclosed in the upper leaf sheath, final branches with 1-3 spikelets; spikelets 2.2-3 mm long, glabrous; first glume about two-thirds of the length of the spikelet, acute, 3-nerved; second glume 5-7-nerved, as long as the spikelet.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Jan. — Sept.

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

Biology: No text

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