Catapodium rigidum
(L.) C.E.Hubb. Fern GrassCulms rigid, erect or spreading, to 30 cm long. Leaves glabrous; blade 1–10 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, pointed at apex, scabrous on lower surface toward the apex and along margins, scabrous along nerves of upper surface; ligule blunt, 0.5–3 mm long. Inflorescence a linear to narrowly ovate, one-sided panicle, 1–8 cm long. Spikelets oblong or narrowly ovate 4–7 mm long, 4–10-flowered; lower glume 1.3–2 mm long, upper glume 1.5–2.3 mm long; lemma 2–2.6 mm long, dorsally rounded for the entire length or slightly keeled toward the apex, not incurved, more or less oblong in side-view, barely 1 mm broad when flattened out. Flowers Oct.–Jan.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, OtR, Strz. Also naturalised in WA, SA, NSW, Tas., the Americas, southern Africa. Native to western and southern Europe, northern Africa, western Asia. In Victoria, locally common on dry sandy soils, chiefly near the coast, but also occurring on inland sites, particularly those prone to slight salination. .
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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