Common name: Bull Mitchell Grass
Astrebla squarrosa C.E.Hubb. APNI* 
Description: Erect, shortly rhizomatous perennial, to 1.5 m high.
Leaves to 6 mm wide, glabrous.
Inflorescence spike-like, becoming well exserted, loose to quite dense, usually 7–18 cm long, 15–30 mm wide. Spikelets closely imbricate, 2.5–11 mm long (excluding bristles). Glumes acuminate, mucronulate; lower glume linear to lanceolate, 2- or 3-nerved, 5–10 mm long; upper elliptic to ovate, 7–12-nerved, 6.5–11 mm long. Lemmas silky to villous upwards from base, 5–7-nerved, lobes similar, becoming reflexed and often hooked; midlobe tapered into a stout bristle 6–10 mm long; lateral lobes subulate, 5–8 mm long. Palea elliptic, 6–7 mm long.
Flowering: in response to rain.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on water run-on areas on heavy self-mulching clays.
NSW subdivisions: NWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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