Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Lake George near Bungendore, NSW

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Lake George near Bungendore, NSW

Line drawing in Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States

Common Name

Curly Rye Grass, Coast Barb Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Introduced annual grass, sprawling or to 12cm tall. Leaves with a hairless sheath at the base. Ligule a membrane without a fringe of hairs. Leaves 0.4-30cm long, 0.4-2mm wide, rolled or flat, hairless on the lower surface, rough on the upper surface and the edges, with a fine point. Spikelets 4-9mm long. Flowerhead slender and cylindrical, forming more than half the plant, green or purplish, spikelets embedded in the hollows of the flower stem. Seeds with 0 bristles.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 123

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Parapholis~incurva

ausgrass2 description with line drawings and photos: http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/parapholis-incurva