Family: Poaceae
Stipa acrociliata
Citation:
Reader, Victorian Nat. 13:167 (1897).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Graceful spear-grass.
Description:
Often rhizomatous; stems wiry, often branched at the nodes, to 1.5 m high; nodes glabrous; sheaths usually loose, glabrous to pubescent; ligule truncate; obtuse or laciniate, 2.5-6 mm long; auricles glabrous; blades to 40 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, glabrous or scaberulous.
Panicle sparse, to 50 cm long, spreading, 4-12 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, ciliate at the tip; lower glume 6-10 mm long, acuminate to acute; upper glume 5-7 mm long, obtuse to broadly acute; floret elliptic, 4.5-5.5 (rarely to 6.5) mm long (excluding the awn); lemma brown, finely tuberculate, with erect white hairs to the apex; coma obscure, 0.3-0.6 mm long; callus 1-1.5 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 3-7 (rarely to 9) cm long, with 1 or 2 bends, bristle occasionally slightly curved; column 12-17 mm long, pubescent.
Distribution:
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W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly Aug. — Nov.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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