Family: Poaceae
Aristida anthoxanthoides
Citation:
Henrard, Meded. Herb. Leid. 54:29 (1926).
Synonymy: A. adscensionis L. var. anthoxanthoides Domin, Biblthca bot. 85:343 (1915); A. depressa sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:563 (1878), non Retz.
Common name: Yellow threeawn, pale wire-grass.
Description:
Tufted ephemeral to 45 cm tall; leaf blades conduplicate or rarely flat, minutely scabrous, somewhat rigid, to 9 cm long.
Inflorescence spike-like and dense, 3-7 x 1-3 cm; glumes slightly unequal, 1-nerved, with scabrid keels, mucronate, straw-coloured, the lower 4-6 mm long, the upper 6-7 mm long; lemma 5.5-7 mm long (including the callus of 0.8-1 mm), involute, tuberculate-scabrous in the upper half; awns subequal to equal, 8-13 mm long; grain 3-6 mm long, with a hilum 1-1.5 mm long.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, pl. 8a.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: March — Dec.
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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:
Described by Lazarides (1970) as "more palatable than many 3 awns and readily grazed when green".
Author:
Not yet available
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