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Enneapogon gracilis (R.Br.) P.Beauv.
Family Poaceae
Common name: Slender Bottle-washers, Slender Nineawn

Enneapogon gracilis (R.Br.) P.Beauv. APNI*

Description: Slender, tufted annual or perennial to 0.7 m high, with somewhat knotty base; culms few-noded, usually much-branched, not disarticulating.

Leaves with blade convolute, to 3 mm wide, pubescent to glabrous.

Panicle spicate, 1–10 cm long, c. 1 cm wide (including awns); axillary inflorescences absent. Spikelets 3–6-flowered, 1 fertile. Glumes acute or acuminate, entire, muticous; lower 3–5 mm long, 9–15-nerved; upper 4–8.8 mm long, 7–11-nerved. Body of basal lemma 1.6–2.2 mm long, 9–11-nerved, nerves flattened or partly ribbed and often green; awns 2–9 mm long, plumose with fine long hairs in the lower 75%. Palea membranous. Lemma of second floret much smaller than the first and almost entirely embraced by it.


Flowering: during warmer months.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open forest and woodland, often on red earths and in rock crevices.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, NWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

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


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***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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