Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 174 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Soft spear-grass.

Description:
Stems usually rigid, to 1 m high; nodes pubescent, rarely glabrous; sheaths tightly rolled, pubescent to glabrous; ligule truncate, 0.3-3 mm long; auricles hirsute; blades to 30 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, glabrous.

Panicle dense, 10-30 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, acuminate; lower glume 16-20mm long: upper glume 15-20 mm long; floret elliptic, 7.5-9 mm long (excluding the awn): lemma red-brown, granular, with appressed white to yellow hairs to the apex; callus 1.5-3 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 6-10 cm long, twice bent; column 2-3.5 cm long, plumose; bristles plumose at the base.

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

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

Biology: No text

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