Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 65:333 (1941).

Synonymy: S. verticillata sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 92 (1943).

Common name: Bamboo spear-grass, cane speargrass.

Description:
Often rhizomatous; stems often branched at the nodes, to 1.5 m high; nodes glabrous; sheaths loose; ligule truncate, 1-7 mm long; auricles more or less glabrous; blades to 20 cm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, glabrous.

Panicle sparse, 20-40 cm long, contracted, 2-4 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, acute to acuminate, striate; lower glume 5.5-6.5 mm long; upper glume 4.5-6 mm long; floret cylindrical, 3-4.5 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma brown, finely tuberculate, with white hairs to the apex; coma obscure, c. 0.2 mm long; callus c. 0.5 mm long, slightly curved and blunt, awn 2-3.5 cm long, with 1 or 2 bends; column 1-1.5 cm long, scaberulous; palea 50-60% the lemma length.

Distribution:    Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Dec.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: In W.Aust. the name has been applied to specimens of S. nullarborensis Vick., S.W.L Jacobs & Everett.

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