Common name: Torpedo Grass
Panicum repens L. APNI* 
Description: Perennial to 1.2 m high with extensive robust rhizomes with sharp, penetrating, scaly apices.
Leaves with sheath glabrous to hairy; ligule membranous below, ciliate above, 0.5–0.75 mm long; blade 2–6 mm wide, hairy especially towards the base.
Panicle usually partly exserted, 7–15 cm long, pedicels 0.5–3 mm long. Spikelets ovate-oblong, 2.2–2.6 mm long. Lower glume 20–35% the length of the spikelet, truncate to rounded-obtuse, 3-nerved; upper the shape and size of the spikelet, 7-nerved. Lower lemma male, similar to the upper glume, 7-nerved; palea slightly shorter than the lemma. Upper lemma elliptic, c. 2 mm long, smooth, lightly striolate.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sandy soils, especially where disturbed. Native of Medit. region.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *CWS, *NWP
Other Australian states: *Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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