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Awnless Blown-grass

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Scientific Name:Lachnagrostis leviseta
Awnless Blown-grass
Awnless Blown-grass - large population
Photo: A J Brown


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).

RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
WesternS1, S2, S3W2, W3


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

Awnless Blown-grass Photos



Awnless Blown-grass - panicle
Awnless Blown-grass - panicle
Photo: A J Brown
Awnless Blown-grass panicle
Awnless Blown-grass - panicle - close
Photo: A J Brown

Awnless Blown-grass spikelets
Spikelets of Awnless Blown-grass
Photo: A J Brown

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