Avena barbata
Pott ex Link Bearded OatCulms erect, to 140 cm high. Leaves glabrous to sparsely ciliate; blade to 30 cm long and 8 mm wide; ligule membranous, irregularly toothed at apex, to 5 mm long. Inflorescence a slender but open, more or less one-sided panicle to 40 cm long. Spikelets 2–3-flowered; glumes lanceolate, 18–30 mm long, 5–9-nerved; lemma narrow-lanceolate, 12–25 mm long (including apical lobes), with long silky hairs in the lower half, setiform part of apical lobes 3–5 mm long, each occasionally with a shorter lateral bristle; awn 25–50 mm long, inserted about halfway up lemma; palea 2–4 mm shorter than lemma. Florets separating from each other at maturity. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz. Naturalized in all States except NT. Native to the Mediterranean, but widely established in warmer temperate and tropical regions of the world. Of scattered occurrence on roadsides, railyards and in pasture over much of the State.
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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