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| Botryochloa (Poaceae) 4b:355 |
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| Botryochloa
macra (Red-leg Grass) is an uncommon weed of warm, dry parts of Tasmania. It is an
erect, tufted perennial with quite
large, erect flowering stalks and relatively large flattish leaves
(up to 10cm long and 3mm wide). The inflorescence is made of
a few narrow elongate panicles clustered together at the end of the
flowering stalk. The spikelets
have two flowers with reduced lemmas and paleas. The upper
flower is fertile flower with a long twisted and bent awn and the
lower is sterile flower without an awn. |
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