Citation: Schrank, Baiersche Fl. 1:382 (1789).

Synonymy: L. linicola Sonder in Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. & Helv. erin 2,2:957 (1844).

Common name: None

Description:
Annual to 80 cm; leaf blades to 24 cm x 5 mm, scabridulous particularly at the apex and margins above, glabrous to slightly scabridulous below.

Spike 4-20 cm; rhachis slender, c. 1 mm diam.; spikelets 6-15 x 2-6 mm, with 2-6 fertile and 0-2 rudimentary florets; glumes lanceolate, about the same length as or longer than the spikelets; lemmas with awns to 12 mm long; mature caryopsis 3-5 mm long, about 2 or 3 times as long as wide.

Distribution:  An obligate weed of flax crops, the seed being harvested with the crop and resown in contaminated seed. Not known, apparently, from linseed crops.   W.Aust.; Vic.   Native to the eastern Mediterranean. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. (1 record).

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

Biology: Only known in Australia from flax crops, so it is now almost certainly extinct with the demise of that industry.

Author: Not yet available