Citation: L., Sp. Pl. (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Rough dogs tail grass.

Description:
Erect glabrous annual; leaves flat, 5-12 mm broad; ligule 2-8 mm long.

Panicle ovate or oblong in outline, 1.5-5 cm long, dense, very bristly; spikelets of 2 kinds, the fertile ones with 2 or 3 bisexual awned florets, surrounded by the sterile spikelets which consist of numerous rigid lanceolate awned glumes and lemmas arranged in 2 opposite rows; glumes l-nerved, c. 8 mm long; lemmas of fertile florets pubescent near the tip, 2-toothed at the summit, 5-nerved, 5-6 mm long, with a straight awn at least twice as long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 43.

Distribution:  Weed of waste places. S.Aust.: LE, FR, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T.   Native to Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.

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

Biology: No text

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