Common name: Longflower Hedgehog Grass
Echinopogon cheelii C.E.Hubb. APNI*
Description: Loosely tufted perennial to 1.1 m high.
Leaves with sheath usually retrorsely scabrid; ligule truncate, to c. 1.5 mm long; blade to 10 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pilose.
Panicle ovate or ovate-oblong, smaller ones sometimes triangular, dense, nodding, 20–60 mm long, 10–30 mm wide (including awns). Spikelets 6–10 mm long, erect or slightly spreading below. Glumes slightly acute to acuminate, firmly membranous, keel rigidly ciliate, scabrid. Lemma usually longer than glumes, linear-lanceolate, 5–9-nerved, 6–9.5 mm long, minutely hispid towards apex, bilobed, lobes c. 2.5 mm; callus bearded, hairs c. 1.5 mm long; awn rigid, 8–22 mm long, scabrid or minutely hispid below. Palea shorter than lemma, keel ciliolate above middle.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Often grows in damp places in forest and grassland.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, CT, ST, NWS
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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