Citation: C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1934:447 (1934).

Synonymy: Panicum clementii Domin, J. Linn. Soc.(Bot.) 41:272 (1912); Paspalidium gracile sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 71 (1943), partly, non (R. Br.) Hughes.

Common name: Clements paspalidium.

Description:
Tufted annual or short-lived perennial, 15-30 cm high, with erect or ascending stems; leaf blades almost glabrous, to 15 cm long, flat.

Panicle to 15 cm long, rather loosely spike-like, shortly exserted; spikelets 2-2.75 mm long, scabrous, sometimes subtended by a bristle; first glume about half as long as the spikelet, acute, 3-nerved, second glume 7-nerved; second (fertile) lemma about as long as the spikelet, more or less shiny.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 54a.

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

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

Biology: Palatable.

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