Eragrostis minor
Host Smaller Stink-grassTufted, sometimes malodorous annual, culms usually prostrate or decumbent, sometimes erect, 5–15(–50) cm long. Leaves sprinkled with fine spreading hairs; blade flat or inrolled, to 12 (but often only 2–6) cm long and 6 mm wide, glandular along margin; sheath sparsely glandular along nerves. Inflorescence a sparse to moderately dense ovate or oblong panicle or raceme, to 20 cm long and 12 cm wide, branches spreading, sometimes glandular, lower branches single or rarely opposite, pedicels sometimes with a single, almost encircling gland. Spikelets mostly 6–14-flowered, 3–15 mm long and 1–2 mm wide, often purplish; glumes sub-equal, broadly acute, 1–2 mm long, sparsely glandular along the keel; lemma 1.5–2 mm long, very obtuse, often shallowly emarginate; palea slightly shorter than lemma; anthers c. 0.3 mm long. Flowers Mar.
MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, GipP, CVU, NIS, HSF. All mainland States except WA, naturalised in New Guinea and parts of northern Europe. Native to southern Europe and western Asia. Known in Victoria by only a few collections, Walpeup and Horsham in the west, Warby ranges in the north-east and from paths and railway verges in Melbourne suburbs (e.g. Caulfield, Kensington).
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.
