Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 55:137 (1931).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial up to 70 cm high, developing rhizomes and stolons; base somewhat thickened or knotty; culms simple or sparsely branched, wiry, many-noded; nodes often thickened; leaves mostly glabrous and smooth; sheaths glabrous at the orifice; blades involute to convolute or sometimes flat, stiff, with thickened scabrid margins.

Panicle 6-10 x 2-4 cm, contracted, usually loose; primary branches up to 3.5 cm long, naked near the base; spikelets 5-11.5 x 1.5-2 mm, loosely 5-1 1-flowered, linear or irregular in outline; rhachilla persistent or ultimately disarticulating, with sparsely scaberulous or smooth internodes 0.8-1.8 mm long, often the lower internodes in the spikelet longer than the upper; glumes persistent or ultimately deciduous, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely scaberulous upwards on the keel or smooth; the lower 2.3-4 mm long; the upper 3.5-4.5 mm long; lemmas 2.5-3.3 mm long, persistent, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rounded on the back downwards or keeled, smooth or almost so; lateral nerves about half as long as the lemma itself or obscure or absent; palea linear-oblong, obtuse to subacute, thinner along a median line and splitting into 2 parts; keels smooth; flaps wider than the body.

Grain not seen.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, SE.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Dec. — March.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available