Citation: Hughes, Kew Bull. 1921:16 (1921).

Synonymy: S. acrociliata Reader var. minor Reader, Victorian Nat. 23:25 (1906), nom. nud.

Common name: Flat-awned spear-grass.

Description:
Rhizomatous; stems to 2 m high; nodes glabrous; sheaths tightly rolled, glabrous to scaberulous; ligule obtuse or lacerate, 1-6 mm long; auricles glabrous; blades to 25 cm long, 1-8 mm wide, glahrous to scaberulous.

Panicle 10-40 cm long, sparse, spreading, to 20 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, acuminate; lower glume 7.5-15 mm long; upper glume 6-10 (rarely to 12) mm long; floret cylindrical, 4.5-6 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma brown, granular, with appressed yellow hairs to the apex; callus 0.5-1 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 6-8 (rarely to 9)cm long, falcate; column 1-1.5 cm long, scabrous.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 145).

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly in summer,

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

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