Citation: Vick., S.W.L. Jacobs & Everett m.s.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Stems to 0.5 m high; nodes pubescent; sheaths tightly rolled, glabrous; ligule truncate to obtuse, 1.5-2.5 mm long; auricles hirsute; blades erect, pungent, to 15 cm long, 1-2 mm diam. (tightly rolled), glabrous.

Panicle sparse, 10-20 cm long, contracted, 1.5-3 cm (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, acute to acuminate; lower glume 21-23 mm long; upper glume 14-18 mm long; floret elliptic, 8-10 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma pale-brown, smooth to granular, with appressed yellow hairs to the apex; lobes to 0.7 mm long; coma 0.6-1.2 mm long; callus 2.6-3.2 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 9-11 cm long, with 2 or 3 slight bends; column 3-3.5 cm long, pubescent to villous.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Nov. (2 records).

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available