Verh. Mitth. Siebenburg. Vereins Naturwiss. Hermannstadt 4: 85 (1853) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Naturalised
Culms to 40 cm high. Leaves glabrous, minutely scabrous along nerves; blade inrolled, to 8 cm long and 0.5 mm wide; ligule toothed at apex, to 5 mm long. Panicle initially contracted with erect branches, finally sparse with spreading branches, to 15 cm long and 12 cm wide. Spikelets (1.5–)2(–2.5) mm long, with pedicels mostly 5–8 mm; glumes equal, acute; lemmas (excluding membranous apical lobes) about two-thirds as long as glumes, glabrous except for short callus hairs, minutely scabrous; awn usually absent from lower floret, upper floret with awn inserted about one-third from base, 2–3 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Dec.
*CVU, *DunT, *EGU, *GipP, *Glep, *Gold, *GGr, *HNF, *HSF, *LoM, *MuF, *MuM, *NIS, *OtP, *OtR, *SnM, *Strz, *VAlp, *VRiv, *VVP, *WaP, *WPro, *Wim. Occurs mostly in drier sites than the very similar A. caryophyllea and A. cupaniana, e.g. mallee associations on sandy soils and drier forests and woodlands on shallow, rocky soils.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | naturalised | |
Murray Mallee | present | naturalised | |
Wimmera | present | naturalised | |
Glenelg Plain | present | naturalised | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | naturalised | |
Victorian Riverina | present | naturalised | |
Murray Fans | present | naturalised | |
Gippsland Plain | present | naturalised | |
Otway Plain | present | naturalised | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | naturalised | |
Goldfields | present | naturalised | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | naturalised | |
Greater Grampians | present | naturalised | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | naturalised | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | naturalised | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | naturalised | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | naturalised | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | naturalised | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | naturalised | |
Otway Ranges | present | naturalised | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | naturalised | |
Victorian Alps | present | naturalised | |
Snowy Mountains | present | introduced |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |