Family: Poaceae
Paspalidium jubiflorum
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:
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All mainland States.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Nov. — May, Aug.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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