Citation: Swallen, Amer. J. Bot. 18:415 ( 1931 ).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Dark swamp wallaby-grass.

Description:
Caespitose perennial to 1.5 m tall; culms erect; leaf blades to 30 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, more or less glabrous below, scabrous above; ligule long-acute, 7-11 mm long.

Panicle erect, frequently purple-tinged, contracted, exserted, to 20 cm long; main axis scabrous, becoming hispid above; branches and pedicels hispid; spikelets 7-11 mm long, with 4-6 bisexual florets; glumes subequal, more or less glabrous, frequently tinged with purple; lemma densely hispid, 4-5.2 mm long; apex 4-toothed, teeth more or less equal, 0.43-1 mm long, purple veins extending to the teeth; awn arising 34-45 (rarely 50)% of the lemma length from the lemma tip, bent, scarcely twisted, hispid, 9.7-18 mm long, pale-brown to purple-brown.

Grain yellow-brown, glabrous, 1.82-2.23 mm long.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: KI, SE.   Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.

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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