Citation: N. Burb., Aust. J. Bot. 1:173 (1953).

Synonymy: Triodia bunicola, Triodia irritans, Triodia scariosa

Common name: None

Description:
Forming hemispherical or flat-topped tussocks, which may become ring-like or crescentic when old; leaf blades and sheaths glabrous.

Panicle narrow but loose, 12-30 cm long; spikelets 4-9-flowered, linear or lanceolate, 9-16 mm long, lax; glumes scarious, 5-8 mm long, 3-5-nerved; lemmas 5-8 mm long, villous at the base, ciliolate, apex emarginate often with a minute mucro, with apparently 3 nerves of which the laterals form a ridge close to the margin in the upper half.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1953) Aust. J. Bot. 1:fig. 16b-d.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. 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

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