Family: Poaceae
Stipa velutina
Citation:
Vick., S.W.L. Jacobs & Everett m.s.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Stems to 80 cm high; nodes velutinous; sheaths tightly rolled, velutinous (to glabrous on very basal sheaths); ligule broadly obtuse to truncate, or lacerate, 0.2-1 mm long; auricles hirsute; blades to 40 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, velutinous.
Panicle to 15 cm long, sparse, contracted, 0.5-2 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes slightly gaping, acurainate, pubescent; lower glume 9-12 mm long; upper glume 6.5-10 mm long; floret narrow-elliptic, 5-6.5 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma pale-brown, granular, with erect white hairs to the apex; coma 0.1-0.5 mm long, callus 1-2 mm long, straight and sharp, awn 3-4.5 cm long, twice-bent; column 1-2.5 cm long, pubescent.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept., Nov. (2 records).
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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