Citation: Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 422 (1841).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tufted annual, with geniculate ascending stems 5-25 cm long; leaves inrolled-setaceous, glabrous with long hairs at the orifice of the sheath.

Panicle narrow, 1-6 cm long; spikelets 6-8-flowered; glumes as long as or rather shorter than the flowers; lemma c. 3.5 mm long, divided for one-third to nearly one-half of its length into 2 lanceolate lobes; palea acute, only two-thirds as long.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, EP.   W.Aust.   Native to the Mediterranean and India. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: probably in all months.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The identity of material currently identified as S. arabicus probably needs further checking.

Author: Not yet available