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Amphipogon caricinus F.Muell. var. caricinus Family Poaceae
Common name: Long Greybeard Grass

Amphipogon caricinus var. caricinus F.Muell. APNI*

Description: Erect, rather rigid tufted perennial to 0.5 m high, sometimes with a very short, compact, erect or oblique rhizome; culms lightly striate, smooth or almost so, c. 4-noded, sometimes slightly geniculate at the nodes.

Leaves with sheath smooth or almost so, usually glabrous, closely enclosing the culms; ligule shortly ciliate; blade usually convolute, finely pointed, usually glabrous.

Panicle at length exserted, 2–6 cm long, spike-like. Spikelets 7–9 mm long, pale to straw-coloured, sometimes tinged with purple. Glumes 3-nerved. Lemma strongly 3-nerved, the lobes often twice as long as the body of the lemma, narrowed into bristles. Palea almost as long as the lemma, smooth.


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Flowering: in response to rain.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in hilly areas with sandy skeletal or red earth soils.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. W.A. S.A. N.T.
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The single variety in NSW. Characters and distribution as for the species in NSW.

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.

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