Citation: Hughes, Kew Bull. 1923:317 (1923).

Synonymy: Panicum jubiflorum Trin., Gram. Pan. Diss. 2:150 (1826); Panicum flavidum sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:474 (1878), non Retz.

Common name: Wartego summer-grass.

Description:
Tufted glabrous perennial, 40-80 cm high, stems usually rather stout; leaf blades long, flat, glabrous, 3-5 mm broad; ligule short, ciliate.

Panicle very narrow, 10-25 cm long; racemes several, sessile, erect, the lower ones distant, 1-4 cm long; spikelets subsessile, glabrous, 2.5-3 mm long, in 2 rows along the triquetrous slender rhachis; first glume broad, obtuse, 3-nerved, half as long as the spikelet; second glume equal to the first lemma; second (fertile) lemma acute, 2-5 mm long, finely and transversely rugulose.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 126.

Distribution:    All mainland States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Nov. — May, Aug.

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

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