Common name: Comb Chloris
Chloris pectinata Benth. APNI* 
Description: Erect, mostly glabrous annual to 0.4 m high; culms geniculate at the base, mostly simple.
Leaves with sheath glabrous; ligule a dense, short-ciliate crown, occasionally with a few longer hairs; blades mostly basal, 2–5 mm wide.
Spikes 5–10, slender, erect to slightly reflexed, 3.5–9 cm long. Spikelets closely crowded along 1 side of the rachis, 2-flowered, upper floret empty. Glumes narrow-lanceolate, lower 1.4–2.5 mm long, upper 2.9–4.3 mm long. Fertile lemma 2-lobed, 3–5.5 mm long, smooth to shortly pilose, awn 8–23 mm long; upper floret deeply 2-lobed, lobes acute, 1.7–2.9 mm long, awn 4–10 mm long.
Flowering: in response to rain or flooding.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in low-lying shallow waterholes and depressions, usually on clayey soils.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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