Common name: Red Flinders Grass
Iseilema vaginiflorum Domin APNI* 
Description: Tufted annual to 80 cm high.
Leaves with sheath glabrous, sometimes reddish; ligule 0.5–1 mm long; blade 2.5–6 mm wide, usually glabrous.
Inflorescence to 22 cm long, eventually disarticulating at the nodes; spathes 0.6–1.5 cm long; spatheoles 0.9–1.2 cm long. Racemes wholly included within the spathes and spatheoles, 7–8 mm long. Involucral spikelets sterile, 3–4 mm long or reduced or absent; pedicels to 1.5 mm long; upper glume to 3 mm long; lemma to 2 mm long or absent. Fertile sessile spikelet female, 5.5–7 mm long, glabrous; lower glume 8–10-nerved; upper 3-nerved; lower lemma 3.5–4 mm long, nerveless; upper lemma stipe-like, to 5.5 mm long, 1-nerved, with an awn 1.5–2.5 cm long, palea absent. Pedicellate spikelets male or sterile, 3–5 mm long; lower glume 5–7-nerved; upper 2- or 3-nerved; lower lemma 2–4 mm long, nerveless.
Flowering: in response to rain.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on heavy soils of the inland.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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