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Echinopogon nutans C.E.Hubb.
Family Poaceae
Echinopogon nutans C.E.Hubb. APNI*

Description: Perennial to 1.2 m high, arising from a slender rhizome.

Leaves with sheath retrorsely scabrid, glabrous or shortly pilose below; ligule truncate, c. 1–2 mm long; blade 2–8 mm wide, glabrous or scaberulous.

Panicle nodding, ovate-oblong or becoming oblong, dense, 2–8 cm long, 0.8–2 cm wide (including awns). Spikelets appressed, linear or linear-lanceolate, 5–8 mm long. Glumes narrow-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, firmly membranous, keel rigidly ciliolate, rarely scabrous above. Lemma usually as long as spikelet, linear or linear-lanceolate, 5–nerved, bilobed, lobes 1–2 mm long; callus hairs c. 1 mm long, bearded; awn rigid, 6–20 mm long, scabrid. Palea shorter than lemma, keel scabrid or rigidly ciliolate above middle.


Herbarium
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Flowering: spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sclerophyll forest or grassland; north from Walcha.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept:

 Key to the varieties 
1Plants to 0.7 m high; panicle 2–5.5 cm long; awns 6–14 mm longvar. nutans
Plants to 1.2 m high; panicle 4–8 cm long; awns to 20 mm longvar. major

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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