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Family: Poaceae
Stipa exilis

Citation: Vick., Telopea 2:13 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Stems delicate, to 60 cm high; nodes pubescent; sheaths tightly rolled, pubescent to hirsute; ligule obtuse, 0.5-2.5 mm long; auricles hirsute; blades to 25 cm long, very fine, less than 0.5 mm diam. (rolled), pubescent to hirsute.

Panicle to 20 cm long, narrowly spreading, to 3 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes narrowly gaping; lower glumes 8-10 (rarely to 12) mm long, acuminate; upper glume 7-8 mm long, acute or dentate; floret cylindrical to elliptic, 4.5-5.5 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma black, granular, with erect while to yellow hairs to the apex; coma obscure, 0.6-0.8 mm long; callus 1-1.5 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 3.5-5.5 (rarely to 6) cm long, twice bent; column 1.5-2.1 cm long, scaberulous.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.


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