Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 40:57 (1916).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Forms dense hemispherical "pincushion" tussocks c. 45 cm in diameter; leaf blades glabrous except adjacent to the orifice, 5-12 cm long, the sheaths woolly-tomentose becoming glabrous with age.

Panicle narrow but rather loose, 8-10 cm long, the lower branches 2-3 cm long; spikelets 5-7-flowered, ovate to lanceolate, 10-13 mm long, on long slender pedicels, densely woolly or silky-villous; glumes c. 10 mm long, 3-nerved, silky; lemmas silky nearly to the summit, the mucro about as long as the 2 very short lateral lobes or teeth, the whole lemma 7-8 mm long, 3-nerved in the upper half, 9-nerved in the lower.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1953) Aust. J. Bot. 1:fig. 14b.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NU, GT, EP. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.

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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