Family: Poaceae
Stipa vickeryana
Citation:
Everett & S.W.L. Jacobs, Telopea 2:397 (1983).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Stems to 45 cm high; nodes glabrous; sheaths loose, glabrous (bases of lowermost sheaths pubescent); ligule lacerate, 3.5-8 (rarely to 13) mm long; auricles woolly; blades to 18 cm long; 1.5-4 mm wide, glabrous.
Panicle 9-20 cm long, sparse, slightly spreading, to 4 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, acuminate; lower glume 14-18 mm long; upper glume 9-14 mm long; floret elliptic to turbinate, 6-7 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma dark-brown, smooth (tuberculate at the apex), glabrous or very sparsely scattered with coppery hairs; coma obscure, 1-1.5 mm long; callus 2.5-3 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 9 (rarely 8)-15 cm long, gently twice bent to almost straight; column 2.6-3.2 cm long, pubescent.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: June, July (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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