Citation: Druce, Rep. Botl Soc. Exch. Club Br. Isl. 1916:604 (1917).

Synonymy: Danthonia nervosa Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 2:121 (1858); A. neesii sensu Jessop in J. Black, Fl.S. Aust. 162 (1978), partly, non Steudel. , Amphibromus morrisii, Avena nervosa

Common name: None

Description:
Caespitose perennial (occasionally rooting at the nodes), to 1.25 m tall; culms erect; leaf blades to 30 cm long, 1.5-3.5 mm wide, glabrous to scabrous; ligule acute, 10-20 mm long.

Panicle erect, contracted, incompletely exserted, to 40 cm long; spikelets 10-16 mm long, with 4-6 bisexual florets; glumes unequal to subequal, glabrous, acute; lemma scabrous, 5-7.2 mm long; apex 2-toothed, usually with 2 smaller lateral teeth/notches, some- times 4-toothed; inner teeth 0.3-0.7 mm long; awn arising 40-55% of the lemma length from the lemma tip, bent, twisted, scabrous, 12-22 mm long, pale, rarely a dark purple-brown.

grain yellow-brown, glabrous, 1.36-2.15 mm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1966) Australian grasses 1:pl. 17 as A. neesii.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.

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

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