Tufted perennial, culms erect, to 120 cm high. Leaves smooth, ciliate along the margin of the sheath and lower blade; blade flat or slightly channelled, to 30 cm long and 4 mm wide; ligule rudimentary. Inflorescence a slender, interrupted, spike-like panicle, to 40 cm long, with usually 6–20 erect, appressed branches, each 1–3 cm long. Spikelets 1.2–1.8 mm long, greyish, later becoming straw-coloured; glumes membranous, the lower obtuse to truncate, sometimes toothed, 0.4–0.7 mm long, the upper obtuse to acute, 0.6–1.2 mm long; lemma acute, membranous; palea subequal to lemma. Spikelet widely gaping about the ridged, truncate grain c. 0.7 mm long at maturity. Flowers Jan.–May.
VRiv, MuF, GipP, Gold, CVU, NIS, EGU. Also Qld, NSW. Rare in Victoria and known from a few localities in central to north-eastern Victoria (e.g. Broadford, Mitiamo, Rochester, Walwa).
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.
