Common name: Greybeard Grass
Amphipogon strictus R.Br. APNI* Synonyms: Amphipogon strictus var. breviseta Vickery APNI*
Description: Perennial to 0.4 m high, erect or very slightly geniculate, the culms arising singly at close intervals from a contracted horizontal rhizome; culms slender, leafy near the base, c. 3-noded above, very slightly striate, smooth or almost so, sometimes minutely flecked with purple.
Leaves with sheath close around the culms, smooth or almost so, usually glabrous, often purplish; ligule ciliate; blade rigid, somewhat pungent-pointed, stiffly infolded into the middle, c. 1 mm wide.
Panicle spike-like, rather dense, 1–2 cm long. Spikelets often rather dark-coloured, c. 8–12 mm long. Glumes entire, usually acute, chaffy. Lemma lobes more than twice as long as the body. Palea almost as long as the lemma, smooth.
Flowering: after fire.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on swamp margins or damp places on rocky hillsides or ridges.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. N.T. S.A. W.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: var. strictus |
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