Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 54:59 (1930).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tussocks up to twice as wide as high; leaf blades glabrous, to 20 cm or more long, the sheaths glabrous or minutely puberulent except for the very short hairs at the orifice.

Panicle at least 50 cm long, slender, with narrow spikelets racemose along the slender lateral branches; spikelets 6-21-flowered, narrow, linear, 8-20mm long; glumes 1-nerved, lanceolate to ovate, keeled; lemmas 4-4.5 mm long, lanceolate, indurate, glabrous or with a basal tuft of short hairs associated with the minute callus and sometimes puberulent and minutely ciliolate along the margin, lobes 1-nerved, acute or obtuse, the central one sometimes mucronate.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1953) Aust. J. Bot. 1: fig. 13b.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW. 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

Author: Not yet available