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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

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:    All mainland States.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct. — May.


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Biology: Palatable.

Author: Not yet available


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