Microlaena stipoides
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 210 (1810) var. stipoides.
Synonymy: Ehrharta stipoides Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:91 (1805).
Common name: Weeping rice-grass, weeping grass, meadow rice-grass.
Description:
Perennial, with a creeping rhizome and often prostrate stems; culms to 60 cm high; leaf blades flat, usually 2-8 cm long.
Panicle narrow, raceme-like, nodding, 8-20 cm long; spikelets c. 30 mm long (including awns which are c. 20 mm); glumes less than 1 mm long, separated from the lemmas by a section of the hairy rhachilla; first sterile lemma slightly shorter than the second, both scabrous, not corrugated, with awns longer than the body of the lemma; fertile lemma about as long as the bodies of the sterile lemmas, mucronate but not awned; palea hyaline; stamens 5.
Published illustration:
Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 5.
Distribution:
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All States. New Zealand.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: in Nov., Dec. 1 record for May.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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