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Piptatherum miliaceum (L.) Coss.
Family Poaceae
Common name: Rice Millet, Many-flowered Millet Grass

Piptatherum miliaceum (L.) Coss. APNI*

Synonyms: Oryzopsis miliacea (L.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Asch. & Schweinf. APNI*
Piptatherum miliacea (L.) Coss. APNI*
Oryzopsis miliaceum (L.) Asch. & Schweinf. APNI*

Description: Tufted perennial to 1.5 m high, with a contracted rhizome with extravaginal innovations; culms branched.

Leaves with ligule hyaline, obtuse or truncate, 2–3 mm long; blade 8–10 mm wide, slightly scabrous.

Panicle 15–40 cm long, loose, open. Spikelets 3–3.5 mm long. Glumes membranous to hyaline, as long as the spikelet, long-acuminate, slightly unequal. Lemma 1.8–2 mm long, ovoid, shortly notched at the summit, smooth, glabrous, hardened around the fruit and shining at maturity, bearing a terminal, readily deciduous, straight, capillary awn 2–4 mm long. Palea as long as the lemma, 2-nerved. Anthers c. 1 mm long.


Flowering: spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grown to stabilize mine-dumps in moist and semi-arid regions, and frequently spread from such plantings. Native of Medit. region.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT, *CWS, *NFWP, *NT, *SWP, *SWS, *ST
AVH map***

Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & J. Everett
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


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