Common Name

Australian Saltmarsh Grass, Marshgrass, Saltmarsh Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Annual or perennial grass to 80cm tall. Leaves with a hairless sheath at the base. Ligule a membrane without a fringe of hairs. Leaves 3-22cm long, 0.5-4.3mm wide, threadlike, with edges rolled inwards or folded lengthwise, hairless, the uppermost leaf usually clasping the base of the flower head. Spikelets 2-12mm long. Mature seed groups narrow cylindrical, slightly spreading. 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 136

PlantNET description with line drawings: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Puccinellia~stricta

ausgrass2 description with line drawings: http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/puccinellia-stricta