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Deyeuxia parviseta Vickery
Family Poaceae
Deyeuxia parviseta Vickery APNI*

Description: Loosely tufted perennial to 1.2 m high.

Leaves with ligule membranous, truncate, jagged, 1–4 mm long, scaberulous; blade 2–4 mm wide, grooved and scabrous.

Panicle loose, 7–23 cm long, laxly spreading; the branches sometimes subnodding, filiform, 2–6-nate. Spikelets c. 2–2.5 mm long, not conspicuously laterally compressed when young. Glumes unequal or subequal, obtuse, 1-nerved, somewhat keeled, ultimately gaping. Lemma equalling or exceeding glumes, truncate, finely and densely scaberulous to almost smooth, 5-nerved, with a minute dorsal awn attached immediately below the apex, sometimes scarcely separated from the lemma and not or scarcely exceeding it; callus short, bearded with rather stiff hairs 0.3–1.2 mm long. Palea subequal to lemma.


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Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in damp and shady sclerophyll forest or rainforest, often in steep gorges.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas.
AVH map***

Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept:

 Key to the varieties 
1Glumes unequal; lemma exceeding glume, finely and densely scaberulous; leaves with both surfaces of blade scabrousvar. parviseta
Glumes subequal; lemma equalling but scarcely exceeding glumes, very inconspicuously scaberulous to almost smooth; leaves with blade scabrous on lower surface, densely scabrous to pubescent on upper surfacevar. boormanii

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***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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