Family: Poaceae
Neurachne lanigera
Citation:
S.T. Blake, Contr. Qld Herb. 13:10 (1972).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Stems 15-30 cm high, woolly at the base; nodes densely pubescent; leaves mostly basal, 8-13 cm long, 0.9-2 mm broad, rigid, flat or involute, pubescent or glabrous.
Racemes oblong, 3-4 cm long, dirty-green; spikelets bearded at the base; glumes pubescent or villous, acuminate with long points, the first flat, green, 5-nerved, the second 9-nerved, densely ciliate upwards, the hairs increasing in length downwards and also forming a dense beard extending towards the mid-veins; first lemma also herbaceous, 5-nerved, almost hirsute above the middle, pubescent towards the base, with a palea 1.5-2 mm long, second (fertile) lemma c. 8 mm long, scaberulous above, shortly ciliate on the upper margins.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW, LE. W.Aust.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: July — Aug.
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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:
Very similar to N. alopecuroidea, differing only in the hairs on the leaf sheaths and spikelets and in the size and shape of the lemmas and paleas.
Author:
Not yet available
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