Common name: Bunch Panic
Yakirra australiensis (Domin) Lazarides & R.D.Webster APNI* Description: Leafy annual, usually 5–15 cm high, forming compact often reddish or purplish tufts; culms usually geniculate, strongly branched especially at upper nodes.
Leaves with blades flat, 3.5–6.5 cm long, acuminate; ligules long-ciliate.
Inflorescences consisting of many panicles, 2–3 cm long, c. 1 cm wide, shorter than subtending leaves; spikelets 3–4 mm long, c. 1.3 mm wide; lower glumes ovate, about half as long as pikelet, 3–5-nerved; upper glumes and lower lemma elliptic-ovate, 5–7-nerved, acuminate; palea narrow, c. 0.5 mm long, acuminate; fertile florets elliptic, 1.5–2 mm long, with stipe c. 1 mm long.
Fruits with seed elliptic-orbicular, c. 1.3 mm long, c. 1 mm wide.
Flowering: Flowers March–August
Distribution and occurrence: North Far Western Plains; also Qld, N.Terr., SA & WA. Grows on sandplains, low sand hills, and in seasonally moist areas.
NSW subdivisions: NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by M. Lazarides (1981)
Taxon concept: M. Lazarides & R.D. Webster (1985)
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