Citation: Hughes, Kew Bull. 1921:18, fig. 20 (1921).

Synonymy: S. congesta Summerh. & C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1927:362 (1927).

Common name: Foxtail spear-grass.

Description:
Stems to 1.5 m high; nodes pubescent; sheaths tightly rolled, pubescent to glabrous; ligule truncate to lacerate, 1-4 mm long; auricles glabrous; blades 15-45 cm long, 1.5-4.5 mm wide, scabrous to pubescent.

Panicle dense, 10-30 cm long, contracted, 2-5 cm wide (excluding the awns); glumes gaping, acuminate, pubescent; lower glume 13-18 mm long; upper glume 12-16 mm long; floret elliptic, 5.5-7 mm long (excluding the awn); lemma brown, tuberculate, with white hairs to the apex; callus 1.2-1.8 mm long, straight and sharp; awn 3.5-4.5 cm long, twice bent; column 1.3-2 cm long, pubescent to villous.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 143.

Distribution:    N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.

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

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