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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Aristida australis

Citation: B. Simon, Austrobaileya 2:88, fig. 1C (1984).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tufted perennial to 65 cm tall; leaf blades flat and flexuous, to 10 cm x 3 mm.

Inflorescence loosely contracted, 8-24 x 0.2-0.3 cm; glumes unequal, smooth, aristulate, the lower c. 10 mm long, 1-3-nerved, with a scabrous keel, the upper c. 13 mm long, 1-nerved; lemma 9-10 mm long (including the callus of c. 1 mm long), convolute, pallid with mauve patches; awns 14-17 mm long, slender.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, SL.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Feb. and May (2 records).


SA Distribution Map based
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