Citation: Host, Gram. Aust. 4:15 (1809).

Synonymy: E. poaeoides P. Beauv., Agrost. 162 (1812).

Common name: Smaller stinkgrass, small stinkgrass.

Description:
Annual 6-60 cm high, sometimes odorous; culms erect or decumbent or prostrate, usually branched, 3- or 4-noded, often with a glandular band or patches close below nodes; sheaths sparsely ciliate on the margins with delicate tubercle-based hairs, often with pitted or warty glands on the nerves; blades to 12 x 0.6 cm, flat or sometimes involute or convolute, pilose with delicate hairs on the upper surface, usually with pitted or warty glands on the mid-nerve and margins; panicle 4-20 x 1.5-12 cm, rather dense or open, ovate, glandular or eglandular on the divisions, but often with a single gland on the pedicels; axis and divisions scaberulous or smooth; primary branches up to 7 cm long, divided or spikelet-bearing from near the base.

Spikelets 3-15 x 1.3-2 mm, loosely 6-16 (rarely 40)-flowered, narrowly oblong or sometimes linear; rhachilla persistent, internodes 0.4-0.5 mm long; glumes boat-shaped, ovate, acute or acuminate, sometimes cuspidulate, often scaberulous and sparsely warty-glandular upwards on the keel, 1-nerved or (especially the upper) 3-nerved; the lower 1-1.6 mm long, the upper 1.3-1.9 mm long; lemmas 1.5-2 mm long, membranous or chartaceous, broadly ovate to subrotund, obtuse, scaberulous near the apex or smooth, often sparsely glandular on the keel; palea broadly elliptic or obovate, obtuse; keels closely scaberulous in the upper part, sometimes the upper hairs longer than the lower ones.

Grain slightly compressed laterally, elliptic-oblong.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.   New Guinea; native to the Mediterranean and western Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: March.

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

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