Eragrostis mexicana
(Hornem.) Link Mexican Love-grassTufted annual, culms ascending or erect, to 110 cm high. Leaves glabrous or very lightly sprinkled with fine hairs; blade usually flat, to 20 cm long and 8 mm wide. Inflorescence an open panicle, to c.30 cm long and 18 cm wide, lower branches usually solitary or opposite, their axils glabrous or ciliate; pedicels mostly longer than or about as long as spikelets. Spikelet 3–16-flowered, 2–9 mm long and 1.3–2.5 mm wide, light green to grey-green; glumes acute, 0.8–2 mm long, subequal or more often, the upper c. 0.5 mm longer than the lower, scabrous along the keel; lemma 1.3–2.5 mm long, acute to obtuse; palea subequal to lemma. Anthers c. 0.3 mm long.
MuM, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, CVU, GGr, HSF, Strz. A common late summer to autumn weed of roadsides and gardens particularly in the greater Melbourne area, rather uncommon elsewhere (Dromana, Warragul, Bacchus Marsh, Ballarat, Walpeup etc.).
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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