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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Echinochloa inundata

Citation: Michael & Vick., Telopea 1:46 (1975).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Channel millet.

Description:
Annual, from less than 1 m to over 2 m high; leaf blades to 50 cm or more long, 5-12 mm broad; ligule of upper leaves 0, of lower leaves of hairs.

Inflorescence contracted and more or less spike-like, 8-20 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, with several erect branches 1-3 cm long; spikelets crowded in about 3 irregular rows along the narrow angular scabrous more or less bristly rhachis of the racemes, ovoid-acute, c. 5 mm long; first glume nearly half as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, ciliolate; second glume sub-9-nerved; first lemma 5- or sub-7-nerved containing a palea nearly as long as itself; second (fertile) lemma shorter than the second glume.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, GT.   Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: May — Aug.


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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: One extremely similar specimen in AD from the same area was identified as E. turnerana (Domin) J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 1:72 (1943) (=Panicum turneranum Domin, Biblthca bot. 85:307; 1815) by Vickery (1969) and by Michael (1970).

Author: Not yet available


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