Family: Poaceae
Stipa drummondii
Citation:
Steudel, Synops. Pl. glumac. 1:128 (1854).
Synonymy: S. luehmanii Reader, Victorian Nat. 16:158 (1900); S. horrifolia J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 44:191 (1920).
Common name: Cottony spear-grass.
Description:
Stems to 1 m high; nodes usually concealed, puberulent to almost glabrous; sheaths loose, hirsute; ligule ovate, 0.4-0.8 mm long to 1.5 (rarely to 4 mm) long if continuous with the sheath margin); auricles hirsute; blades to 20 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, erect, hirsute.
Panicle dense, to 40 cm long, spreading, 4-10 (rarely to 16) cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, acuminate to acute; lower glume 7-t2 mm long; upper glume 6-11 mm long; floret elliptic, 4-6 (rarely to 7) mm long (excluding the awn);,lemma red-brown to black, granular, with erect white hairs sparser towards the apex; coma obscure, to 0.5 mm long, or absent; callus 1.5-2.5 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 40-90 mm long, falcate; column 11-21 (usually 14-18) mm long, pubescent to villous.
Distribution:
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W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: 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:
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Author:
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