Citation: R. Br. ex Fresen., Mus. Senckenb. Abh. 2:134 (1837).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Feather-top, long-style feather-grass.

Description:
Stems ascending, silky below the panicle, 40-50 cm high; sheaths and blades keeled, the sheaths villous at the orifice, the blades narrow, channelled; ligule of short hairs.

Panicle pale, spike-like but rather loose, 4-8 cm long, 1.5-3 cm broad (excluding the long bristles); spikelets in groups of 1-5 on very short pedicels, subtended by an involucre of many unequal bristles to 3-4 cm long and plumose in the lower half, with a few short outer simple bristles, conical, green, 10-12 mm long, acute, glabrous; first glume minute, obtuse, the second glume not half as long as the spikelet, also hyaline, 1-3nerved; first lemma c. 8 mm long, membranous, 7-9-nerved, containing a palea and stamens, second (fertile) lemma rather longer, membranous (second glume and lemmas terminating in a seabrous mucro); anthers orange, 4-5 mm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 65; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 129.

Distribution:    All mainland States except the N.T. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Feb. — June.

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

Biology: No text

Uses: Cultivated as an ornamental, but becomes a weed.

Author: Not yet available