Cleistochloa subjuncea C.E.Hubb. APNI* 
Description: Culms 0.6 m high, wiry, bases covered with thick scales (cataphylls).
Leaves with sheath much shorter than internode, 5–35 mm long; blade to 3 mm wide, with tubercle-based hairs on lower surface and margins, disarticulating at the collar at maturity.
Terminal inflorescence erect, 0.7–2.5 cm long, consisting of 2–6 spikelets borne alternately along the axis. Chasmogamous spikelets 3.5–4.4 cm long, almost glabrous. Lower glume < 1 mm long; upper 5-nerved, 3–3.8 mm long. Lower lemma 3.5–4 mm long, hairy on the upper margins and apex; upper lemma as long as the spikelet. Palea hairy on the upper margins. Cleistogamous spikelets 4–6 mm long, obtuse, usually apiculate, partly enclosed by the leaf sheaths.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in scrubby areas on sandstone.
NSW subdivisions: NWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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