Common name: Slender Chloris
Chloris divaricata R.Br. APNI* Description: Erect, slender, mostly glabrous perennial to 0.5 m high, tufted to shortly stoloniferous; culms simple or branched only in the lower part, 3- or more-noded.
Leaves with sheath glabrous; ligule a short-ciliate crown; blade 1.5–4 mm wide.
Spikes 3–8, digitate, becoming horizontal, 7–20 cm long. Spikelets slightly imbricate, rather crowded, appressed, 2-flowered, c. 4 mm long. Glumes very narrow-lanceolate, lower 0.9–1.8 mm long, upper 2–2.9 mm long. Fertile lemma linear to narrow-lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, toothed at the apex, keel and internerves scabrous, awn 7.5–17 mm long; upper lemma narrow-elliptic, glabrous, 1.2–1.9 mm long, apex acute, deeply 2-lobed, awn 4.5–9.5 mm long.
Flowering: in response to rain or flooding, usually during the warmer months.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on many types of soil, favouring alluvial areas subject to periodic flooding.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: var. divaricata |
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