Austrostipa setacea glumes1 Dubbo - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man

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Description: Native, cool season to yearlong green, perennial, tufted grass to 80 cm tall. Ligules are membranous, not ciliate and 2–9 mm long. Auricles are thickened, mostly on lower leaves. Blades firmly folded to inrolled, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, smooth to strongly ribbed, and densely pubescent on upper surface. Flowerheads are contracted panicles 10–20 cm long. Spikelets are gaping at maturity and 9–16 mm long (excluding awn). Glumes are unequal and acuminate. Lemmas are 5.5–7 mm long, black at maturity and densely silky; lobes are absent, the coma is obscure to 0.8 mm long and the callus is straight and weakly bent at the tip. Awns are twice bent and 2.5–4 cm long. Flowering occurs over most of year, but mostly in spring. A widespread but uncommon species. Date: 28 October 2015, 16:18. Source: Austrostipa setacea glumes1 Dubbo. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location32° 13′ 32.66″ S, 148° 39′ 35.88″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-32.225740; 148.659966.