Austrostipa mollis
(R.Br.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.EverettTufted perennial, culms erect, to 1.2 m high, nodes pubescent or rarely glabrous. Leaves usually glabrous, sometimes scabrous, rarely pubescent; blade weakly to strongly inrolled, to 30 cm long and 4 mm broad; ligule ciliate 0.3–3 mm long. Inflorescence usually a densely contracted panicle to 30 cm long. Glumes 16–22 mm long, purplish or green, acuminate, subequal; lemma 7.5–9 mm long, pale or reddish brown at maturity, finely granular, with semi-appressed white to golden hairs except toward apex; callus 1.5–3 mm long; awn twice bent, 60–100(–110) mm long, 10–17 mm to the first bend, column plumose with a spiralling line of hairs 0.6–2 mm long; palea about equal to lemma, with a line of hairs down the centre. Flowers Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, VAlp. Uncommon on the volcanic plains and absent from high altitudes but otherwise common and widespread; a very frequent component of sandy coastal heathlands, woodlands north of the Dividing Range, and mallee communities.
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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