Description:
Floret Colour: Variable - brown/yellow
Floret Length: 7 - 10mmFloret Sculpture: Carinate, Divided with medium groove ending with short bristles.
Floret Shape: Lanceolate (Lance shaped)General information:
Robust annuals to 1.6 m high; juvenile growth prostrate to erect.
Leaves with ligule obtuse to acute, 3–8 mm long.
Panicle loose, pyramidal, to 40 cm long; blade 5–15 mm wide, scabridulous, ciliolate at base. Spikelets very open, 15–25 mm long without the awns, each with 2 or 3 florets. Glumes acute, subequal, 7–11-nerved, 18–30 mm long, all florets disarticulating at maturity.
Florets fertile lemma lanceolate; 14–20 mm long; coriaceous; much thinner above; dark brown; without keel; 7–9 -veined. Lemma surface pilose; hairy below. Lemma apex dentate; 2–4 -fid; with irregular lobes; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn dorsal; arising 0.5 way up back of lemma; geniculate; 25–40 mm long overall; with twisted column. Palea keels ciliateSource: See web links
KEW Royal Botanic Gardens
PlantNET - FloraOnline
