Common name: Millet Panic, French Millet
Panicum miliaceum L. APNI* 
Description: Caespitose annual to 1.2 m high.
Leaves with sheath with tubercle-based hairs; ligule a ciliate rim, c. 1–2 mm long; blade 4–25 mm wide, either glabrous except for the ciliate lower margins, or with long, fine tubercle-based hairs.
Panicles contracted or open, to 30 cm long; pedicels 2–6 mm long. Spikelets 4.5–5.75 mm long, broad-ovate to lanceolate. Lower glume 50–75% the length of the spikelet, broad-ovate, acute, often inflated, 5–7-nerved; upper the shape and size of the spikelet, usually 11-nerved. Lower lemma sterile, similar to the upper glume, palea to 33% the length of the lemma. Upper lemma elliptic-oblong to circular, subacute to obtuse, 3–3.5 mm long, smooth and shining, falling readily from the glumes. Grain white.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Commonly cultivated or a weed on disturbed ground; widespread. Native of Asia, India & Medit. region.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP, *NFWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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