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Family: Poaceae
Panicum prolutum

Citation: F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855:46 (1855).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Coolah grass, rigid panic.

Description:
Glabrous perennial, with rigid stems 30-100 cm high; leaves glabrous, flat or inrolled; ligule oblong, glabrous, 3-5 mm long, torn at the summit.

Panicle 15-20 cm long, compound, loose and wide, the lower branches mostly whorled; lateral pedicels capillary, 4-8 mm long; spikelet 3-4 mm long, turning purple, acute, glabrous; first glume three-quarters of the length of the spikelet, obtuse, 5-nerved, second glume 7-9-nerved; first lemma equal to the second glume, not enclosing a palea, second (fertile) lemma smooth and shining.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 121.

Distribution:  Usually grows near water.

  All mainland States except the N.T.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — April.


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