Voy. Barb. 2: 100 (1789) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Naturalised
Annual, culms erect or geniculate near base, to 70 cm high. At least the lower leaves softly hairy, hairs on lower sheath often decurved; blade flat, to 20 cm long and 4 mm wide; ligule ciliate on abaxial surface, toothed, 0.5–2 mm long. Inflorescence a contracted cylindric to narrowly ovoid panicle 4–12 cm long with erect branches shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets sparsely to moderately hairy, 8–16-flowered, flattened, oblong to lanceolate, 15–40 mm long (excluding awns); lower glume 3-nerved, 5–9 mm long, upper glume 7-nerved, 8–12 mm long; lemma 10–18 mm long, with an apical notch to 3 mm deep, 7-nerved; awn 8–15 mm long, conspicuously flattened, twisting near base and spreading toward maturity, inserted 3–6 mm below lemma apex. Flowers Oct.–Dec.
*CVU, *DunT, *EGU, *Gold, *GGr, *HSF, *LoM, *MuF, *MuM, *NIS, *VRiv, *VVP, *Wim. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. An occasional weed of crops, pasture and roadsides, mostly in drier parts of the State.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | naturalised | |
Murray Mallee | present | naturalised | |
Wimmera | present | naturalised | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | naturalised | |
Victorian Riverina | present | naturalised | |
Murray Fans | present | naturalised | |
Gippsland Plain | present | cultivated | |
Goldfields | present | naturalised | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | introduced | |
Greater Grampians | present | introduced | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | naturalised | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | naturalised | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | introduced | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | introduced |
State |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
New South Wales |
Victoria |
Tasmania |