Panicum effusum
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 191 (1810) var. effusum.
Synonymy: P. convallium F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855:46 (1855).
Common name: Hairy panic.
Description:
A perennial tussock grass. 20-50 cm high; leaves more or less hairy, the blades 2-5 mm broad, flat or inrolled, the hairs sometimes seated on tubercles; nodes silky-bearded; ligule silky-ciliate, very short; particle soon long-exserted, rigid, 10-20 cm long, compound, loose.
Spikelets distant, pedicellate, usually 2 towards the end of each filiform branchlet, 2-2.5 mm long, acuminate, purplish; first glume acute, 3-nerved, one-half the length of the spikelet, the second 5-7-nerved; first lemma equal to the second glume, enclosing a palea; second (fertile) lemma smooth and shining.
Published illustration:
Burbidge (1968) Australian grasses 2:pl. 9.
Distribution:
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All mainland States.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — May.
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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:
Palatable.
Author:
Not yet available
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