Dichanthium sericeum
Citation:
A. Camus, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 27:549 (1921).
Synonymy: Andropogon sericeus R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 201 (1810).
Common name: Silky blue-grass, Queensland blue-grass.
Description:
Erect grass 30-70 cm high; nodes bearded; leaves flat; ligule ciliolate, sometimes with long hairs rising from the blade behind it.
Racemes 2-7, 2.5-7 cm long, densely clothed with white silky hairs; first glume of sessile spikelets 4-5 mm long, 5-7-nerved between the 2 keels, densely bearded near the summit by an arch of long hairs seated on tubercles; awn 25-33 mm long; first glume of pedicellate spikelets 7-13-nerved between the keels; first lemma of pedicellate spikelets usually present.
Published illustration:
Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 21b; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 84.
Distribution:
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Said by S. T. Blake (1969) to occur on more clayey soils than D. affine and to be commoner in open grassland.
All mainland States and New Guinea.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: throughout the year.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
Not extensively grazed.
Author:
Not yet available
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