Family: Poaceae
Chloris truncata
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 186 (1810).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Windmill grass.
Description:
Erect glabrous perennial, sometimes stoloniferous, 16-45 cm high; culms usually simple.
Spikes usually 6-9, spreading horizontally when in flower, usually 9-13 cm long; glumes hyaline or membranous, acuminate, with or without a short point, the first 1-2 mm long, the second 3-4 mm long; florets usually 2, often black; lemmas cartilaginous, the first (fertile) with 2 minute apical lobes, smooth or scabrous, pubescent on the upper margins, 3-4 mm long, awn 11-14.5 mm long, second lemma awned, truncate.
Published illustration:
Burbidge (1968)Australian grasses 2:pl. 57; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 75.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. All mainland States except the N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Nov. — June.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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