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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Bothriochloa ewartiana

Citation: C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1934:444 (1934).

Synonymy: Andropogon ewartianus Domin, Biblthca Bot. 85:269 ( 1915); Dichanthium ewartianum (Domin) C. Gardner, Fl. W. Aust. 1:328 (1952); A. ischaemum sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:531 (1878), non L.

Common name: Desert blue-grass.

Description:
Perennial; stems stiff, glabrous, 40-80 cm high; nodes usually pubescent; leaves glabrous, the blades flat, 3-5 mm broad; ligule short, truncate.

Panicle simple, 5-8 cm long; common rhachis 1-2 cm long; racemes 6-14, straw-coloured or purplish, 4-6 cm long, subsessile on the short common rhachis so as to have a digitate appearance; sessile spikelet 3-4 mm long; first glume glabrous except a few hairs near the base, 5-7-nerved between the 2 keels, rarely pitted, second glume membranous, hairy on the back and the margins; awn bent, 12-20 mm long; pedicellate spikelet of same length but narrower, male or sterile; anthers linear, yellow, nearly 2 mm long.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 19a.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR.   All mainland States except Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: April — Aug.


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Biology: Valued for grazing in wetter areas.

Author: Not yet available


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