Pholiurus pannonicus* (Host) Trin. Fund.
Agrost. 131 (1820).
Classification. (GPWG 2001) : Subfamily Pooideae.
Basionym and/or
Replacement Name: Rottboellia
pannonica Host, Icon. Descr. Gram. Austriac., 1: 19, t. 24 (1801).
Type of Basionym or
Protologue Information: In salsis Pannoniae, Waldstein & Kitaibel
s.n..
Key references
(books and floras): [2002] D.Sharp & B.K.Simon, AusGrass, Grasses of
Australia, [2006] J.Jessop, G.R.M.Dashorst, F.M.James, Grasses of South
Australia (141).
Illustrations:
[2006] J.Jessop, G.R.M.Dashorst, F.M.James, Grasses of South Australia (142, fig. 95).
Habit. Annual.
Culms erect or geniculately ascending or decumbent, 10–30 cm tall. Ligule an
eciliate membrane, 2.5–3 mm long, lacerate. Leaf-blades 4–6 cm long, 2–2.5 mm
wide. Leaf-blade surface scaberulous.
Inflorescence.
Inflorescence solid, a raceme. Racemes 1, smoothly terete, 5–12 cm long.
Spikelets.
Spikelets sessile. Fertile spikelets many flowered, with at least 2 fertile
florets, comprising 2 fertile floret(s), without rachilla extension, oblong,
laterally compressed, 6–7 mm long.
Glumes. Glumes
similar, firmer than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate, coriaceous, without
keels, 7 -nerved. Upper glume lanceolate, 6–7 mm long, coriaceous, without
keels, 7 -nerved.
Florets.
Fertile lemma 5.5 mm long, without keel, 3 -nerved. Lemma surface indumented.
Anthers 3.
Continental
Distribution: Europe, Temperate Asia, and Australasia.
Australian
Distribution: South Australia.
South Australia:
Northern Lofty, Yorke Peninsula.
