Common name: Rough Dog's Tail
Cynosurus echinatus L. APNI* 
Description: Tufted annual to 1 m high; culms tufted or solitary, erect, often branched.
Leaves with ligule membranous, blunt, to 10 mm long; blade rolled in the bud, 2–10 mm wide, rough above.
Panicle spike-like, dense, ovate or oblong, 1-sided, very bristly, 1–8 cm long, main axis smooth. Fertile and sterile spikelets clustered together and sterile spikelets surrounding fertile ones. Fertile spikelets 1–5-flowered, cuneate; sterile persistent, broad-ovate, compressed, consisting of up to 18 awned bracts 4–8 mm long including awn. Lemmas of fertile spikelet ovate, rounded, 5-nerved, awn 6–16 mm long. Palea about as long as lemma.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of waste and cultivated areas. Native of Medit. region.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *SWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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