Citation: Reader, Victorian Nat. 15:143 (1899).

Synonymy: S. compressa R. Br. var. lachnocolea Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:567 (1878); S. lachnocolea (Benth.)Hughes, Kew Bull. 1921:26 (1921); S. setacea R. Br. var. latifolia Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:568 (1878); S. scelerata Behr. ex J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 65 (1922).

Common name: None

Description:
Annual spear-grass, one-year grass'. Annual (? or short-lived perennial); stems stout, to 90 cm high; nodes usually concealed, glabrous; sheaths loose, pubescent and hirsute with characteristic flattened transparent flexuose hairs; ligule truncate, obtuse or lacerate, 1-15 mm long, continuous with the sheath lobes, auricles hirsute; blades 5-15 (rarely to 20)cm long, to 10 mm wide, glabrous or scabrous; panicle t0-35 cm long, contracted, 1-5 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping: lower glumes 13-22 mm long, acuminate; upper glume 8-14 mm long, broadly acute; floret elliptic, 7-8 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma white, granular, with erect white hairs to the apex; callus straight and sharp, 1.5-3.5 mm long; awn 6-20 cm long, twice bent; column 1.4-4cm long, scabrous.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.

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

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