Slender tufted annual, culms geniculate to erect, mostly to 20(–30) cm high. Leaves softly hairy to almost glabrous; blade flat or folded, to 6 cm long and 7 mm wide; ligule 0.5–1.5 mm long, toothed. Panicle loosely spike-like, sometimes irregular in outline, 1–6 cm long. Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm long (excluding awns); glumes 3-nerved, subequal, 2–3 mm long, the lower densely hairy, the upper ciliate along keel (sometimes hairy all over); lemmas 5-nerved, virtually glabrous, 2–3 mm long (excluding awn), awn straight, 1–3 mm long, inserted at the base of a shallow apical notch. Hairs at apex of rachilla segments c. 1 mm long. Flowers Jul.–Oct
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP. Also WA, SA, Tas. Indigenous to Spain and possibly southern Africa. Common on alluvial, often saline soils in the north-west of the State.
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.
