Common name: Buck Spinifex
Triodia mitchellii var. breviloba N.T.Burb. APNI* 
Description: Leaves with sheath glabrous, upper margin ciliate with hairs to 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence compact, linear; axils glabrous. Glumes 3.5–5 mm long, lateral nerves often scabrous, margins ciliolate. Lemma c. 4.5 mm long, lower 75% silky with hairs to 1 mm long, silky toward margins with hairs to 0.5 mm long; lobes to 0.5 mm long.
Flowering: Flowers in response to rain.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on sandplains; north from Cobar area.
NSW subdivisions: NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & K. L. McClay
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993) and Grasses of New South Wales, Fourth Edition (2008).
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