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Aira praecox L.
Family Poaceae
Common name: Early Hairgrass

Aira praecox L. APNI*

Description: Erect annual to 0.2 m high; culms slender, 3-noded.

Leaves with sheath smooth; ligule to 3 mm long, acute; blade convolute, grooved, 0.5 mm wide, glabrous.

Panicle spike-like, narrow, with short erect branches; pedicels shorter than spikelets. Spikelets crowded, c. 3 mm long. Glumes lanceolate, scabridulous on the keel, shining. Lemmas subequal to slightly shorter than the glumes, scabridulous towards the apex, with short hairs at the base; awn exserted, 1–1.5 mm long.


Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Naturalized on sandy soils in Sydney. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *W.A.
AVH map***

Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


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