Common name: Delicate Hairgrass
Aira elegantissima Schur APNI* Synonyms: Aira elegans Willd. ex Gaudin APNI*
Description: Slender erect annual to c. 0.5 m high; culms solitary or tufted.
Leaves with sheath scabrid; ligule acute, 2–3 mm long; blade flat or convolute, to 0.8 mm wide.
Panicle open and eventually very loose, ovoid, 4–13 cm long; pedicels 2–5 times as long as spikelets. Spikelet 1.2–2.5 mm long. Glumes acute, ovate to lanceolate, scabridulous on the keel, 1-nerved. Lemma with acuminate 2-fid apex, c. 65% as long as glumes, lower often unawned; awn c. 2.7 mm long.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in pasture, disturbed grassland, or open woodland. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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