Citation: F. Muell., Linnaea 25:445 (1853).

Synonymy: A. strictus sensu J. Black, Fl. W. Aust. 81 (1943), non R. Br.

Common name: Long-grey-beard grass.

Description:
Plants tufted or with very short more or less oblique rhizomes, to 60 cm high; leaf blades usually 8-15 cm long.

Panicle oblong to narrow-cylindrical, 2-4 cm long, less than 1 cm broad; spikelets 9-10 mm long; lemma 6-8 mm long (including the awns), the cilia continuing (without reduction) right to the awn-tips; anthers c. 3 mm long.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 12a; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 54.

Distribution:    All mainland States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — April.

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

Biology: A dry area species, unpalatable.

Author: Not yet available