Citation: Reader, Victorian Nat. 17:154 (1901).

Synonymy: S. fusca C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1925:432 (1925); S. variegala Summerh. & C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1927:363 (1927); S. dura J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 65:333 (1941).

Common name: Desert spear-grass.

Description:
Stems to 85 cm high; nodes pubescent to almost glabrous; sheaths tightly rolled, hirsute to glabrous upwards; ligule truncate, 0.5-1.5 mm long; auricles glabrous to hirsute; blades to 30 cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, glabrous to hirsute.

Panicle 15-30 cm long, spreading, 2-7 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, inflated at the middle, acuminate; lower glume 15-25 mm long; upper glume 10-18 mm long; floret turbinate to cylindrical, 6-9.5 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma dark-brown, smooth, with appressed rust-coloured hairs, but the upper c. 1 mm tuberculate and scabrous with short erect hairs; lobes to 0.4 (rarely to 0.75) mm long; coma 0.4-0.7 mm long; callus 2-4 mm long, straight or slightly curved, and sharp; awn 5-9 (rarely to 11)cm long, twice bent; column 1.5-3.8 cm long, pubescent to scaberulous.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Sept. — Nov.

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

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