Citation: Summerh. & C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1927:60 (1927).

Synonymy: S. scabra Lindley vat. pallida Reader, Victorian Nat, 17:156 (1901).

Common name: Balcarra grass.

Description:
Stems to 0.75 m high; nodes glabrous; sheaths tightly rolled, glabrous to pubescent; ligule truncate 0.3-1 (rarely to 1.5) mm long; auricle hirsute; blades to 40 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, glabrous to scabrous; panicle 20-55 cm long, dense, contracted, 0.5-5 (rarely to 7) cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping slightly, acute to acuminate; lower glume 8-13 mm long; upper glume 8-13 mm long; floret elliptic, 5 (rarely 4)-6 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma pale-brown, smooth to granular, with appressed white hairs to the apex; coma obscure, 0.3-0.8 mm long; callus 1.2-2.2 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 4.5-7 cm long, falcate; column 10-13 mm long, scaberulous to pubescent.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Dec.

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

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