Citation: Trin. ex Steudel, Nom. bot. edn 2, 2:324 (1841).

Synonymy: Arundo karka Retz., Obs. Bot. 4:21 (1786). , Phragmites vallatoria, Phragmites vallatorius

Common name: None

Description:
Culms usually 1-4.5 m high; leaves narrowly lanceolate, attenuate or rarely illiform, stiff- or pungent-pointed, 12-50 x 1-2.5 cm, scabrid beneath (at least in the upper half).

Panicle 10-35 cm long, sometimes plume-like, brownish; spikelets 8-14 mm long, with the lowest flower male, followed by a few bisexual flowers; glumes conspicuously unequal in length, glabrous; lemma usually 1-nerved, glabrous, callus with long silky hairs.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld.   Africa and Asia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: .

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

Biology: No text

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