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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Ehrharta erecta

Citation: Lam., Encycl. 2:347 (1786).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Panic veldt grass.

Description:
Perennial, with a creeping rhizome; culms to 90 cm high; leaf blades flat, 1.5-13 mm broad.

Panicle open or contracted (rarely a raceme), usually less than 15 cm long; spikelets 3-5 mm long; glumes much shorter than the spikelet (the second longer and just over half the length of the spikelet), green; sterile lemmas awnless, nearly as long as the spikelet, at least the second corrugated, glabrous, the second with 2 small scales at the base; fertile lemma almost as long as the second sterile lemma, obtuse.

Published illustration: Meredith (1955) The grasses and pastures of South Africa, fig. 9.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL, SE.   W.Aust.: N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to southern Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: have been recorded in May, Aug. and Jan.


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