Eragrostis cilianensis
(All.) Vignolo ex Janch. Stink-grassTufted, malodorous annual, culms erect or geniculate near base, to 90 cm high. Leaves glabrous; blade flat or slightly inrolled, to 20 cm long and 8 mm wide, glandular along margin; sheath glandular along major nerves. Inflorescence an open to moderately dense ovate panicle, to 30 cm long and 10 cm wide, the branches usually spreading and with spikelets to near the base, lower branches single or opposite; pedicels usually with one to a few glands. Spikelets mostly 8–30-flowered, 5–18 mm long and 2–4 mm wide, green to purplish-grey; glumes subequal, boat-shaped, 1.5–2.5 mm long, sparsely glandular along the keel; lemma 2–2.5 mm long, very obtuse, often shallowly emarginate, usually with a few glands along midvein; palea slightly shorter than lemma; anthers c. 0.3 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Jun.
MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, DunT, NIS, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR. Naturalized in all States, also southern Africa, the Americas, Pakistan. Native to the Mediterranean and northern Africa. A common weed in northern Victoria, particularly in irrigated districts in and on banks of rivers draining these areas. Of scattered occurrence in the south, where chiefly a weed of roadsides, gutters, cracks in footpaths etc.
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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