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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Sporobolus elongatus

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 170 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Slender perennial, to 60 cm high; leaf blades setaceous or narrow and flat, rather short.

Panicle narrow, more or less interrupted, 15-30 cm long, 3-10 mm broad, the branches erect-spreading, to 2 cm long, but clothed with spikelets to the base; glumes subequal, hyaline, c. 1 mm long, the first obtuse, the second acute; lemma nearly 2 mm long, acute.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1968) Australian grasses 2:pl. 34.

Distribution:    N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. (De Nardi (1973) Contr. N.S.W. natn. Herb. 4:406).

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: not available.


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