Phalaris lemmonii
VaseyTufted annual, culms slender, erect, to 25–150 cm high. Leaves smooth and glabrous; blade 5–15 cm long and 1–8 mm wide; ligule acute, membranous, soon becoming torn, 1.5–8 mm long. Panicle cylindrical, usually slightly branched below, (2–)3–15(–20) cm long and 0.6–1.5 cm wide, branches to 2 cm long. Spikelets crowded, 4–7 mm long; glumes 4.5–6.7 mm long, 3-nerved, subequal, acuminate, wingless, exceeding apex of florets; sterile lemmas subequal, linear, 1–1.6 mm long, densely appressed-hairy; fertile lemma broad-lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm long and 1.2–1.6 mm wide, mostly hairy with ascending hairs. Flowers Nov. (4 records).
VRiv. Native to southwest USA and Mexico. At Baddaginnie it grows on creek flats in Creekline Grassy Woodland, with an overstorey of Eucalyptus albens and Eucalyptus camaldulensis, with a mainly native understorey.
Prior to being rediscovered in 2001, the occurrence of Phalaris lemmonii Vasey was based on specimens collected from Baddaginnie and Everton in north-eastern Victoria in 1934 and 1935. It is not regarded as naturalised in any other Australian State. It is possible that it may have been introduced as part of a trial of potentially useful fodder grasses.