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Family: Poaceae
Sporobolus caroli

Citation: Mez, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 17:299 (1921).

Synonymy: S. lindleyi sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:623 (1878), non (Steudel) Benth.

Common name: Fairy grass, yakka grass.

Description:
Slender perennials, 20-40 cm high; leaf blades linear-lanceolate, minutely scabrous, flat, 3-10 cm long; panicle loose, compound, pyramidal, 8-12 cm long and equally broad at the base, the capillary branches spreading and twice divided, only the lowest branches whorled, the upper ones more or less scattered.

Spikelets dark; pedicels longer than the spikelets; glumes acute, unequal, the first under 1 mm long, the second under 2 mm long and equalling the lemma; palea splitting very early.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 141; Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 68c.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, SL.   All mainland States.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: recorded in Dec. and March.


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