Citation: Link, Hort. bot. Berol. 1:190 (1827).

Synonymy: Poa mexicana Hornem., Hort. Hafn. 2:953 (1815). , Eragrostis mexicana, Eragrostis virescens

Common name: Mexican lovegrass.

Description:
Annual 12-75 cm high; culms erect or decumbent, terete or the lower internodes compressed or subterete and grooved along one side, branched, 3- or 4-noded; leaves mostly glabrous and smooth; sheaths sometimes pilose with tubercle-based hairs on especially the outer margin; blades usually flat and up to 5.5 mm wide or loosely involute.

Panicle 10-28 x 2-14 cm, finally loose or open, often scarcely exserted, occupying a half to two-thirds the length of the plant; axis smooth or upwards scaberulous; axils glabrous or with sparse stiff hairs; primary branches to 10 cm long, l-3-nate, much divided, naked of spikelets in the lower part; pedicels to 2 cm long; spikelets 3.5-9.5 x 1-2.5 mm, loosely 5-16-flowered, linear or lanceolate; rhachilla persistent, internodes 0.6-0.8 mm long; glumes lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes mucronulate, smooth on the surface, scaberulous upwards on the keel, 1.2-2 mm long, equal or the upper larger; lemmas 1.6-2.5 mm long, lanceolate-ovate or elliptic, acute or subobtuse, scaberulous near the apex and sometimes near the upper margins; palea spathulate or oblong-elliptic, acute or obtuse; keels closely scaberulous in the upper part.

Grain laterally compressed, oblong-elliptic, grooved or concave on the back, strongly striate-reticulate.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, SL.   N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to southern North America. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

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