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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:    All States.   New Zealand.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: in Nov., Dec. 1 record for May.


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