Awnless Blown-grass

Status:

Indigenous to western Victoria. Only recently described.

Plant Description:

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.

Habitat:

Only found on saline drainage lines and flats to the west of the Grampians. Often in association with Adamson’s Blown-grass (L. adamsonii).

Comments:

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