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Chrysopogon sylvaticus C.E.Hubb.
Family Poaceae
Chrysopogon sylvaticus C.E.Hubb. APNI*

Description: Densely tufted perennial to 1.5 m high.

Leaves with sheath glabrous, keeled; blade 2.5–6 mm wide, ± folded.

Panicle ovate, loose, 8–18 cm long and to 13 cm wide; axis slender, finely scabrous, few-noded, the branches whorled, hair-like, at length spreading, simple, flexuous, to 8 cm long; joints and pedicels 5.5–7 mm long, glabrous. Sessile spikelets 7.5–9.5 cm long. Lower glume narrow-truncate or rarely mucronate, 7-nerved muricate near the margins; upper glume narrow-truncate or obtuse, with an awn 3–5 mm long. Lower lemma obtuse, c. 5 mm long, with a geniculate awn 17–25 mm long, the column scaberulous. Palea truncate. Pedicellate spikelets sterile or male, linear or lanceolate, acute, 3–7.3 mm long, consisting of 2 glumes, 2 lemmas, palea and stamens variously present or absent.


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Flowering: summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in eucalypt woodland in higher rainfall areas; north from Richmond R. region.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld N.T.
AVH map***

Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


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