Family: Poaceae
Phalaris paradoxa
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. edn 2, 2:1665 (1763).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Paradoxa grass, paradoxical canary-grass.
Description:
Glabrous annual, 30-50 cm high, with erect culms.
Panicle cylindrical, dense, 3-6 cm long; fertile spikelets terminal on the secondary branches and surrounded by an involucre-like group of 6 sterile spikelets; glumes of the fertile spikelets subequal, keeled, many-nerved, the margins not membranous; sterile lemmas (of the fertile spikelets) minute and scale-like; fertile lemma almost glabrous.
Published illustration:
Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 54; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 131.
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: EA, EP, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE. Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Native to the Mediterranean.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Nov. — Feb.
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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:
No text
Uses:
Of slight value for fodder.
Author:
Not yet available
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