Common name: Australian Vetiver
Chrysopogon filipes (Benth.) Reeder APNI* Synonyms: Chrysopogon elongatus var. filipes Benth. APNI*
Andropogon elongatus var. filipes Hack. APNI*
Vetiveria filipes (Benth.) C.E.Hubb. APNI*
Rhaphis elongatus var. filipes APNI*
Description: Perennial to 1 m high.
Leaves with sheath keeled; ligule <1 mm long; blade 3–6 mm wide, margins scabrous.
Racemes slender, bare at the base; primary axis scabrous. Spikelets paired, except the terminal group which is a triplet. Sessile spikelets 8–10 mm long, excluding the 3 mm long callus bearded with brown hairs. Glumes similar, thickened, 3–5-nerved, a row of short spines down the 2 lateral nerves, often short-awned. Lower lemma shorter than the glumes, margins ciliate near the tip; upper lemma narrow, produced into an awn 12–36 mm long, palea membranous. Pedicellate spikelet sterile, purple, awnless; glumes similar, scabrous near the apex; lemmas unawned, the upper shorter than the glumes, sometimes absent.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on river banks and floodplains.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: J.F. Veldcamp (1999)
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