Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 9:129 (1881).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tuckers spear-grass.

Description:
Rhizomatous; stems wiry, decumbent, to 0.5 m high, often branched at the nodes; nodes pubescent or glabrous; sheaths tardily loose, hirsute; ligule obtuse, 2.5-6 mm long; auricles glabrous; blades to 13 cm long, 0.3-1.2 mm wide, pubescent or glabrous.

Panicle pyramidal, 15-20 cm long, expanded widely, 10-17 cm wide (excluding the awns), axis, branches and pedicels plumose; glumes gaping, acute to acuminate, inflated; lower glume 6-9 mm long; upper glume 5-9 mm long; floret narrow-cylindrical, 4-5 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma dark-brown, tuberculate, glabrous (except for appressed white hairs on the lower half of the lemma margins); coma obscure, 0.1-0.25 mm long; callus 0.2-0.3 mm long, straight and blunt; awn 3-3.5 cm long, with 1 bend; column c. l cm long, scabrous; palea 20-35% the lemma length.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 146.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — April.

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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