Common Name

Warrego Summer Grass, Warrego Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Perennial grass 30cm to 1.3m tall. Leaves with a hairless sheath at the base. Ligule a membrane with a fringe of hairs. Leaves flat, 2.5-25cm long, 2-10mm wide, rough or hairless, tapering to a long fine point. Spikelets pale green to straw-coloured, 2-3mm long. Seeds with 0 bristles. Mature seed groups cylindrical to somewhat spreading. Setaria jubiflora in SA.

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 126

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

ausgrass2 description with photo and line drawing: http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/paspalidium-jubiflorum