Panicum obseptum
Trin. White-water PanicDecumbent stoloniferous perennial, culms geniculate, ascending, to 30 cm high; nodes hairy. Leaves glabrous or ciliate; blade flat, to 10 cm long and 5 mm wide; ligule 0.5–1 mm long, ciliate. Panicle shortly exserted or partly enclosed at maturity, 1–6 cm long, with appressed or slightly spreading branches. Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm long; lower glume weakly 1-nerved or apparently nerveless, truncate, 0.5–0.8 mm long; upper glume 7–9-nerved, acute, as long as the spikelet; lemma of lower floret equal to upper glume; palea of lower floret absent; fertile lemma acute, slightly shorter than or subequal to spikelet, hard, shining, dorsally rounded; palea subequal to lemma, nearly flat. Flowers Dec.–Feb. (in NSW).
VRiv, GipP, Gold. Also Qld, NSW. Known in Victoria from a few collections in mostly modified vegetation (Bandiana, 1949; Rochester area 1956; Fernbank, 1996), and, although an Australian endemic species, most likely a casual introduction is this state from pasture seed or possibly via avian vectors from swamplands north of Victoria.
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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