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Family: Poaceae
Echinochloa crus-galli

Citation: -galli, (L.)P. Beauv., Agrost. 53 (1812).

Synonymy: Panicum crusgalli L., Sp. Pl. 56 (1753). , Panicum crus-galli

Common name: Barnyard-grass, cockspur grass.

Description:
Annual, 30-80 cm high; leaf blades to 40 cm long, 4-12 mm broad; ligule 0.

Inflorescence contracted, 6-20 cm long, well exserted, with 9-12 racemes; spikelets crowded in about 3 irregular rows on one side of the narrow triquetrous scabrous bristly rhachis of the erect-spreading racemes, 3-4 mm long (excluding the awns); first glume 3-or 5-nerved, less than half the length of the spikelet, second glume 5-nerved; first lemma 5-nerved, often awned, rarely to 2 cm long (including the awn), second (fertile) lemma c. 2.5 mm long, shorter than the second glume.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1968) Australian grasses 2:pl. 62; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 89.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T. Almost cosmopolitan as a native or naturalised.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: usually Nov. — April, but rarely also in winter.


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