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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Agrostis capillaris

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 62 (1753) var. capillaris.

Synonymy: A. tenuis Sibth., Fl. Oxon. 36 (1794); A. vulgaris With., Arr. Brit. Pl. edn 3:132 (1796). , Agrostis capillaris

Common name: Brown-top bent.

Description:
Tufted or rhizomatous perennial, usually 20-50 cm high; leaf blades flat, slightly scabrid; ligule c. 1 mm long, truncate or rounded.

Panicle 1-20 cm long, effuse, ovoid, cylindrical or pyramidal, loose during flowering; spikelets 2-3.5 mm long; glumes 2-2.5 mm long, lanceolate, acute, scabrous on the keel; lemmas almost as long as the glumes, truncate, 3-nerved, glabrous or finely scabrid towards the base, awnless or with a very short awn from near the top; palea about half as long as the lemma; no beard or bristle.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU, SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T. and Qld.   New Zealand; native to the Northern Hemisphere.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Nov. — Feb.


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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The name of this species was discussed by S. Rauschert (1977) Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 88:318.

Author: Not yet available


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