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Scientific Name: | Lachnagrostis leviseta | ![Awnless Blown-grass](../../vroimages.nsf/Images/sip_awnless_blown_grass/$File/awnless_blown_grass.jpg) Awnless Blown-grass - large population
Photo: A J Brown |
Status:
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Indigenous to western Victoria. Only recently described.
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Plant Description:
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Tufted, erect, hairless perennial grass to 65 cm tall with, smooth, inrolled, bluish-green, leaves to 20 cm long (but often less than 10 cm) and less than 1 mm wide; ligule membranous, acute, 5-6 mm long.
Inflorescence, a purple, erect, open and broad panicle to 25 cm long, well exserted from the leaf sheath.
Spikelets small (3.5-4 mm long), purple on short fine stalks. Each spikelet with a single, hairy, floret without an awn or bristle or with a minute awn to 0.3 mm near the tip of the floret.
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Habitat:
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Only found on saline drainage lines and flats to the west of the Grampians. Often in association with Adamson’s Blown-grass (L. adamsonii).
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Comments:
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Similar appearance to Common Blown-grass.
A simplified key to some of the species on salt-land can be accessed here - Blown-grass species key
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Awnless Blown-grass Photos