Rytidosperma duttonianum (Cashmore) Connor & Edgar APNI* Synonyms: Austrodanthonia duttoniana (Cashmore) H.P.Linder APNI*
Danthonia duttoniana Cashmore APNI*
Austrodanthonia duttoniana (Cashmore) H.P.Linder APNI*
Description: Erect, densely caespitose, moderately robust, glabrous perennials to 0.8 m high.
Culms often rather stout, smooth, shinning, somewhat compressible. Sheaths rather loose, lightly striate; smooth; ligule reduced to a row of short, dense cilia, 0.5 mm long, sometimes bearded at edges; blade firm, apex obtuse, keeled, usually folded about the midrib when dry, up to 20 cm long, c. 2–3.5 mm wide, often somewhat glaucous, smooth.
Inflorescence obliquely ovate, 4–12 cm long, the spikelets rather numerous. Spikelets 5–8-flowered, pale-green tinged with purple, the florets about 65% as long as the glumes. Glumes with broad hyaline margins, 7-nerved, 11–20 mm long. Lemmas 3–4 mm long, smooth, shining; back with distinct row of hair tufts; lateral lobes 3-nerved, setae often entwined around central awn at maturity; central awn strong, somewhat reflexed from the base, and geniculate c. 4–6 mm above the base, the lower part dark brown and strongly twisted at maturity; palea ovate-lanceolate, glabrous except for the keels.
Flowering: Flowers spring to summer.
Distribution and occurrence: On poorly drained soils.
NSW subdivisions: CT, ST, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. Grasses of New South Wales, Fourth Edition (2008).
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