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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Amphipogon strictus

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 175 (1810) var. setifer Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:598 (1878).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Plants with contracted horizontal rhizomes, to 50 cm high; leaf blades less than 8 cm long (usually.less than 5 cm).

Panicle capitate, ovoid to broadly oblong, to 2 cm long, but c. 1 cm broad or more; spikelets c. 9-12 mm long; lemma 8-12 mm long (including the awns), the cilia diminishing toward the scabrous awn-tips; anthers c. 4 mm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 46.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct. — April.


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