Leersia
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Tufted, rhizomatous or stoloniferous perennials (rarely annual). Ligule membranous. Inflorescence a panicle, the branches sometimes raceme-like. Spikelets with 1 fertile floret; glumes absent or (in some interpretations) much reduced and appearing as a bilobed, dilated pedicel apex; lemma strongly compressed laterally, hispid, awnless; palea subequal to, but much narrower than lemma.
18 species, from tropical and warm-temperate regions; 2 species (1 indigenous) in Australia.
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.
Updated by: Andre
Messina,
30 May 2017
Spinning
genus
Leersia
