Citation: C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1941:26 (1941).

Synonymy: Glyceria australasica Steudel, Synops. Pl. glumac. 1:286 (1854); Poa ramigera F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1:45 (1855); G. ramigera (F. Muell.)Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:659 (1878).\

Common name: Cane-grass, bamboo-grass.

Description:
Perennial 1-3 m high, shrubby, shortly rhizomatous; culms up to 5 mm wide and cane-like, much-branched at the many nodes; leaves coriaceous, becoming hardened and often yellowish; blades up to 20 cm long, flat and 2-6 mm wide or subulate.

Panicle 5-26 x 6-9 (rarely 22) cm, rather dense to open; primary branches up to 16 cm long; spikelets 5-13 x 1-1.8 mm, loosely 4-15-flowered, linear; rhachilla jointed, straight or slightly flexuose, internodes 0.8-1 mm long, each one partly enveloped by its attached lemma; glumes persistent, lanceolate, acuminate, rounded on the back, glabrous, faintly nerved; the lower 1.5-3.5 mm and the upper 2-4 mm long; lemmas 2.3-3.5 mm long, persistent, membranous or partly hyaline, ovate, truncate to obtuse, often notched or erose; lateral nerves about half as long as the lemma itself, often obscure; palea spathulate, splitting along a median line into two parts, keels smooth, flaps as wide as the body or slightly wider.

grain strongly compressed laterally, oblong to ovate, convex or flattened on the back.

Published illustration: Gardner (1952) Flora of Western Australia 1:pl. 33b; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 97.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU.   All mainland States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — May.

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

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