Enneapogon virens (Lindl.) Kakudidi APNI* Synonyms: Pappophorum virens Lindl. APNI*
Description: Tufted perennial to 0.6 m high; culms c. 6-noded, usually branched, not disarticulating.
Leaves with blade involute, to 4 mm wide, antrorsely scabrous; collar sometimes densely ciliate.
Panicle spicate, 3–10 cm long, c. 1 cm wide (including awns); axillary inflorescence absent. Spikelets 4-flowered, 1 fertile. Glumes acuminate or sometimes obtuse, entire, muticous or the lower mucronate; lower 4–7.5 mm long, 6–11-nerved; upper 4–8.5 mm long, 5–9-nerved. Body of basal lemma 2–3.8 mm long, 9–11-nerved, hairy all over the back, the hairs not reaching to the base of the awns, nerves usually flattened or obscure; awns 4.5–9 mm long, plumose in the lower 75–85%. Palea membranous.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Usually grows in open woodland.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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