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Agrostis boormanii Vickery
Family Poaceae
Agrostis boormanii Vickery APNI*

Description: Slender, erect or somewhat geniculate, tufted annual, to c. 0.3 m high; culms 1- or 2-noded.

Leaves with sheath appressed to the culm or slightly loose in the upper part; ligule obtuse, laciniate, c. 3 mm long; blade acuminate, shallowly grooved, 5–10 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide.

Panicle rather contracted, linear-lanceolate, erect or erectly spreading. Spikelets c. 2 mm long, greenish and purple-tinted. Glumes acute, unequal. Lemma thin, truncate, 1.2–1.5 mm long; awn rather fine, shortly exserted. Palea absent.


Illustration
D. Mackay

Type
Specimen

Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Known from type locality only, at Harveys Ra. near Peak Hill.
NSW subdivisions: CWS
AVH map***

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


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