Citation: Vick., Contr. N.S. W. naln. Herb. 4:239 (1970).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Softly hairy usually loosely tufted greyish-green perennial, c. 50-90 cm high, rarely with rhizomes; leaf blades expanded or loosely inrolled, to 30 cm long, variously hairy.

Panicle 9-25 cm long, somewhat contracted or at length broadly spreading; glumes 3-nerved, rather short; lemmas 2.2-4 mm long, usually loosely hairy on the internerves with denser hairs on the keel, lateral nerves and margins; web rather scanty or obsolete.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Nov.

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

Biology: Vickery stated that it could be separated from P. rodwayi "By its coarser and more robust habit and often expanded leaf blades" and from P. crassicaudex "by its more hairy and velvety (to the touch) foliage and by the culms not being swollen at the base".

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