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Genus Entolasia Family Poaceae

Description: Loosely tufted perennials with wiry, branched stems arising from a short rhizome.

Leaves with ligule a rim of short hairs; blade rolled in bud, involute, usually rather short, often with tubercle-based hairs, disarticulating at the ligule at maturity.

Inflorescence a primary axis with short racemes, branches erect, often with a few hairs in the axils of the spikelets.

Spikelets pedicellate, falling entire from the pedicel, usually solitary, adaxial, glabrous externally; florets 2, the lower sterile, the upper bisexual. Glumes unequal, glabrous, smooth, the lower 0–3-nerved, the upper glume the length of the spikelet, 5-nerved. Lower similar to the upper glume and slightly shorter than it; upper lemma pubescent with fine white hairs; margins partly enclosing the palea. Palea the length of the upper lemma, hairy on the back. Lodicules 2, broad-cuneate.


Distribution and occurrence: World: 5 species, Africa & Australia. Australia: 3 species (native), Qld, N.S.W.

Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept:

 Key to the species 
1Upper glume and lower lemma exceeding the fertile floret by up to 1 mm; leaves with blade flat and well-developed with a distinct midvein; spikelets 2.5–3.8 mm longEntolasia marginata
Upper glume and lower lemma about as long as the fertile floret; leaves with blade slightly incurved to involute, sometimes very short and without a prominent midvein; spikelets 2.2–6 mm long2
2Spikelets 2.2–3.8 mm long; tufts of short leafy shoots often present at the nodesEntolasia stricta
Spikelets 4–6 mm long; culms branched at the nodes but without tufts of short shoots
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Entolasia whiteana

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