Paspalidium gausum S.T.Blake APNI* 
Description: Wiry perennial to 0.9 m high with a contracted, knotted rhizome, the innovations extravaginal and, when young, clothed in cataphylls.
Leaves with sheath glabrous; ligule ciliate, c. 0.5 mm long; blade to 5.5 mm wide, ± smooth.
Panicle 10–40 cm long; bristle of lower racemes often bearing a greatly reduced sterile spikelet. Spikelets crowded and overlapping in 2 alternate rows on 1 side of the rachis, 2.5–3 mm long. Lower glume usually c. 50% as long as the spikelet, inflated at the base, obtuse to shortly subacute, 3–5-nerved; upper 60–85% as long as the spikelet 7–9-nerved. Lower lemma sterile, as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved. Upper lemma equalling the spikelet, broad-ovate, with a short beak, striolate, transversely rugose in the middle third.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in woodland on sandy soils; north from Grafton.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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