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

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Slender panic.

Description:
Tufted perennial with erect wiry culms to 50 cm high; leaf blades mainly glabrous, often c. 1 up to 3.5 mm broad, filiform or narrow.

Panicle to 13 cm long, loosely spike-like, exserted; spikelets c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous, sometimes subtended by a bristle; first glume about half as long as the spikelet, subacute, c. 5-nerved; second glume often 5-nerved; second (fertile) lemma as long as the spikelet, rugose especially below.

Distribution:  --Panicum gracile R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 190 (1810).   All States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: not available.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available