Citation: Cosson, Not. Pl. Crit. s&. 2, fasc. 3:129 (1851).

Synonymy: Agrostis miliacea L., Sp. Pl. 61 (1753); Oryzopsis miliacea (L.)Benth. & Hook. f. ex Asch. & Schweinf., Mém.lnst. Egypt. 2:169 (1887). , Achnatherum miliaceum, Milium multiflorum, Piptatherum multiflorum

Common name: Rice millet, many-flowered millet.

Description:
Glabrous perennial; culms leafy, to 1 m high; leaves flat and glossy, 4-7 mm broad and to 30 cm long.

Panicle widely open with numerous verticillate branches, 30-40 cm long; spikelets 4-5 mm long (including the awn); glumes about equal, c. 3 mm long, acuminate, often purple; lemma less than 2 mm long (excluding the awn), apically notched, forming a hard shiny sheath round the fruit, bearing an apical deciduous more or less straight awn 3-4 mm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 13.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NU, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   All States except Qld.   New Zealand; U.S.A.; native to the Mediterranean. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: have been recorded through most of the year but most frequently during summer and autumn.

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

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