Citation: Smith, Pl. Icon, t. 32 (1789).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Annual veldt grass.

Description:
Annual, with leaves in tufts; culms to 90cm high; leaf blades flat, to 11 mm broad.

Panicle open but often narrow, to 20 cm long; spikelets usually 10-18 mm long; glumes less than half the length of the spikelet, the first shorter, purplish; first sterile lemma slightly shorter, both often corrugated towards the base, scabrid, bearded at the base, both awned; fertile lemma shorter than the sterile lemmas; stamens usually 6.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 91 .

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NU, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to southern Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: have been recorded from Aug. — Nov.

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

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