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Family: Poaceae
Puccinellia fasciculata

Citation: Bickn., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 35:197 (1908).

Synonymy: Poa fasciculata Torrey, Flor. nth. middl. U.S. 1:107 (1823). , Festuca borreri, Phippsia fasciculata, Puccinellia borreri

Common name: Borrers saltmarsh-grass.

Description:
A tufted perennial, 5-50 cm high; leaf blades minutely scabrid, narrow, flat; ligule very short.

Panicle lanceolate, unilateral, 3-16 cm long, the branches spreading, at least the 1 or 2 very short ones covered with spikelets to the base, the lower ones 2-4 at each node; spikelets usually 4-8-flowered, 4-7 mm long; glumes ovate, obtuse or subacute; lemmas 1.5-2 mm long, with a very small rigid apiculus formed by the excurrent midrib.

Distribution:  Grows near the sea in mud-flats and salt-marshes.

S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   Vic.   Native to Europe, temperate Africa, Asia and North America.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Nov. — Feb.


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