Common name: Annual Veldtgrass
Ehrharta longiflora Sm. APNI* 
Description: Erect or geniculately ascending tufted annual to 0.9 m high.
Leaves with ligule truncate, to 2 mm long; blade 1–12 mm wide, scaberulous or smooth, usually softly hairy or glabrescent.
Panicle open, to 15 cm long, or reduced to a scanty raceme. Spikelets often nodding, 10–30 mm long, including the awns. Glumes persistent, much shorter than the florets, unequal, the lower 2–2.5 mm long, 5-nerved; upper 3.5–4 mm long, 7-nerved. Lower sterile lemma c. 6 mm long, 3–7-nerved, cuspidate or with an awn to 12 mm long, sometimes faintly transversely rugose below; upper to 7 mm long (without the awn), with a short stipe-like base with 2 inconspicuously bearded ridges at the base, faintly transversely rugose below. Bisexual lemma 7-nerved, 4–7 mm long, unawned.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on light sandy or loamy soils with adequate moisture. Native of S Afr.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *NWP, *NFWP, *CC, *CWS, *SC, *SWS, *SWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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