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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Amphibromus macrorhinus

Citation: S.W.L. Jacobs & Lapinpuro m.s.

Synonymy: A. neesii sensu Jessop in J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 162 (1978), partly, non Steudel.

Common name: None

Description:
Caespitose perennial to 1 m tall; culms erect; leaf blades to 25 cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, glabrous to scabrous; ligule long-acute, 6-17 mm long.

_Panicle erect, contracted to open, to 40 cm long; spikelets 10-17 mm long, with 4 or 5 bisexual florets; glumes unequal to subequal; lemma very roughly papillose, the papillae concentrated on the lower half, less dense and concentrated along the nerves towards the apex, 5.3-7.9 mm long; apex 4-toothed, the inner teeth 0.5-1.15 mm long, the outer teeth shorter, the nerves usually stopping short of the tooth apex; awn arising 50-60% of the lemma length from the tip, bent, slightly to moderately twisted, scabrous, 10-19 mm long, pale-green to a darker brown.

Grain yellow-brown, glabrous, 1.5-1.95 mm long.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct., Nov.


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

Biology: No text

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