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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Festuca littoralis

Citation: Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:22 (1805).

Synonymy: -Schedonorus littoralis (Labill.)P. Beauv., Agrost. 99 (1812).

Common name: Coast fescue.

Description:
Leaves erect, subulate, straw-coloured, rigid, pungent, often exceeding the panicle.

Panicle narrow, almost spike-like, 6-10 cm long, straw-coloured; spikelets few, on short pedicels, flat, erect, 14-16 mm long, 4-6-flowered; glumes 9-12 mm long, sub-5-nerved; lemma 10-12 mm long, shortly mucronate, scabrous on the keel, sub-7-nerved, the nerves equidistant, shortly ciliate towards the base; palea as long, ciliate on the 2 nerves; lodicules lanceolate.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 3:pl. 57.

Distribution:  Occurs most frequently on sand near the sea. Not of pastoral importance.

  All States except the N.T. and Qld.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Feb.


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