Citation: Herrm., Beitr. Biol. Pflanzen. 10:52 (1910).

Synonymy: Setaria macrostachya

Common name: Diels pigeon-grass.

Description:
Glabrous annual, 15-65 cm tall, the stems rigid and geniculate near the base; leaf sheaths loose, the blades flat, 5-15 cm long, 3-8 mm broad, scabrous, sometimes spirally twisted; ligule ciliate, c. 1 mm long.

Panicle spike-like, 3-12 cm long, 4-7 mm broad (without the bristles), 8-20 mm broad (including the usually conspicuous bristles), contracted towards the summit, becoming somewhat interrupted towards the base, the rhachis scabrous, the short branches more or less whorled; spikelets glabrous, ovate-acute, 2.25-2.5 mm long; bristle usually 1 at the base of the very short pedicel of each spikelet, 6-10 mm long, with erect teeth; first glume ovate-acute, 3-nerved; second glume and first lemma about equal, the first lemma with a small palea, second (fertile) lemma as long as the others, minutely punctulate.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 66b.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year but less frequently in summer.

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

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