Citation: Brunonia 7:292 (1985).

Synonymy: Panicum australiense Domin, J. Linn. Soc.(Bot.) 41:271 (1912); Ichnanthus australiensis (Domin) Hughes, Kew Bull. 1923:329 (1923); P. pauciflorum R. Br. var. fastigiatum Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:483 (1878). , Rottboellia truncata

Common name: Bunch panic.

Description:
A low dense grass with several stems, 10-15 cm high; leaves with scattered hairs often seated on tubercles, the sheaths loose, the blades lanceolate, 3.5-6.5 cm long; ligule of long hairs.

Panicle 2-3.5 cm long, sometimes unbranched, clustered at the ends of the stems or branches and shorter than the subtending leaves; spikelets glabrous, acute, 3-4 mm long, few (usually 3-6) in each panicle or raceme; first glume broad, acute, 5-nerved, half the length of the spikelet, the second acuminate, 5-nerved; the first lemma equal to the second glume, 7-nerved; second (fertile) lemma and palea smooth, brown, glossy, c. 2 mm long, on a stipe c. 1 mm long which bears at its summit a small white annular membranous open and minutely 2-lobed appendage below the palea.

Published illustration: Gardner (1952) Flora of Western Australia 1:pl. 76; Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 52a.

Distribution:  5 species, all Australian. (Lazarides & Webster (1985) Brunonia 7:289-296.) S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: not available.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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