Polypogon monspeliensis
(L.) Desf.Tufted annual, culms erect, often geniculate at base, to 90 cm high. Leaf-blades flat, finely scabrous, to 20 cm long and 8 mm wide; sheaths smooth; ligules membranous, obtuse, 3–14 mm long. Inflorescence a dense, narrowly ovate to oblong panicle, 2–15 cm long and 1–3.5 cm wide, overall pale yellow-green; glumes oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm long (excluding awns), membranous, scabrous, ciliate along margins, shallowly notched at apex with a straight, slender awn 4–7 mm long arising from the notch; lemma ovate, c. half as long as glumes, hyaline, dentate, with a slender apical awn not or barely exceeding glumes; palea slightly shorter than lemma. Flowers mainly Sep.–Feb.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz. A weed of damp or wet sites throughout much of lowland Victoria, occasionally forming dense swards, and occasionally growing largely submerged.
Perennial Beard-grass, Polypogon lutosus (Poir.) Hitchc. is sometimes considered to be a sterile intergeneric hybrid between Polypogon monspeliensis and Agrostis stolonifera L. In Victoria is appears to be a fertile, true-breeding species and is treated as such here. It is an occasional component of saltmarshes and margins of brackish watercourses.
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