Eriachne vesiculosa Lazarides

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Eriachne

Characteristics

Herbaceous perennial plants 30–90 cm high; base slightly thickened, pubescent. Culms fastigiately branched, glabrous; nodes bearded, sometimes pubescent or tuberculate. Leaves: sheaths shorter or slightly longer than culm internodes, mostly glabrous; blade to 30 cm long, to 4 mm wide, densely vesicular and pilose to hirsute with simple hairs on upper surface, pilose with stiff tubercle-based hairs on lower surface, sometimes glabrous on one or both surfaces, scabrous or smooth, with margins prickly-tuberculate. Panicles open, 5–10.5 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide. Glumes 6–9 mm long, muticous, 7–9 (–11)-nerved, smooth, glabrous. Florets often cleistogamous, shorter than glumes. Lemma 4–8 mm long, awned, indurated and nerveless in lower part, membranous and 5-nerved (visible on inner surface) near apex, bisulcate, entirely hirsute (sometimes sparsely) with hairs exceeding apex, scabrous near apex; awn 18–30 mm long, curved. Palea elongated into beak 3–5 mm long and bifid into 2 bristle-like awns to 3 mm long, indumentum similar to lemma. Caryopsis 2.5–3 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Environment

Usually growsin deep sandy often whitish soils, in damp and seasonally flooded, oftenshaded, sites such as the channels and banks of watercourses, stream lines andgrassy swamps. 
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Distribution

Eriachne vesiculosa world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:983417-1
WFO ID wfo-0000868892
COL ID 6GJ88
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Synonyms

Eriachne vesiculosa