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Family: Poaceae
Eragrostis superba

Citation: Peyr., Sber. Acad. Wien Math. Nat. 38:584 (1860).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial 30-90 cm high, with a glabrous scarcely thickened base; culms erect or ascending, grooved or flattened along one side, simple, 2- or 3-noded; leaves coriaceous, mostly glabrous and smooth; sheaths usually pilose or ciliate upwards on the margins with soft white hairs to 5 mm long; blades to 27 x 0.6 cm, flat or involute.

Panicle 12-24 x 1-2 cm, spike-like, interrupted at least in the lower part; axis and divisions smooth or scaberulous; primary branches to 8 cm long, divided or often simple, naked in the lower part, pedicels 0.5-2.5 mm long; spikelets 6.6-15 x 4-10 mm, closely 6-16-flowered, broadly ovate-elliptic or suborbicular to oblong, disarticulating below the glumes and falling entire; rhachilla persistent, straight or wavy, thickened, sparsely bearded at the base of each internode or glabrous, the internodes 0.3-0.4 mm long; glumes persistent, coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, scaberulous upwards on the keel or smooth, 2.8-4.2 mm long; lemmas 3-5 mm long, persistent, hardened in the lower part or coriaceous and sometimes with hyaline to membranous margins, lanceolate-ovate, subobtuse, flattened in the lower part or acutely keeled, smooth on the sides, scaberulous upwards and winged on the keel; nerves often green, the laterals often faint in the lower part and with a linear depression near their base; palea lanceolate, long-acuminate, 2-lobed, glabrous, smooth; keels winged, wings scaberulous, cartilaginous to membranous, widened in the lower part; flaps hyaline to membranous.

Grain trigonous, elliptic.

Distribution:  In S.Aust. known from one small population on a roadside.

S.Aust.: SL.   Qld.   Native to Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: May (1 record).


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