Tufted perennial, culms erect to 60 cm high. Leaves smooth and glabrous; blade inrolled, rather stiff, to 20 cm long and 1.5–3 mm wide; ligule oblique, ciliate, with hairs c. 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence a distichous, secund spike or spike-like panicle, 2–6 cm long, 0.6–1.5 cm wide. Spikelets ovate, 5–8 mm long, 3–10-flowered; glumes almost as long as entire spikelet, abruptly tapered to a slender, often slightly recurved point; lemmas c. 5 mm long, smooth, firm and obscurely nerved, awnless, pilose in the lower third to half with club-tipped hairs c. 0.5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Dec.
GipP. Also naturalised in WA. Native to the Western Cape in South Africa. Known in Victoria from two collections (collected in 1985 and 1986) near Jolimont railway yards.
Source:
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.
