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Lax Saltmarsh-grass
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| Lax Saltmarsh-grass photos | Family: Grass (Poaceae syn. Gramineae) |
| Scientific Name: | Puccinellia perlaxa (syn. Puccinellia stricta var. perlaxa) |  Lax Saltmarsh-grass - population Photo: A J Brown | |||||||||
| Mainly native to Victoria but occasionally recorded for Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia. | ||||||||||
| Tufted, erect, hairless perennial or annual grass to 50 cm tall with slender, smooth, green, inrolled leaves to 30 cm long and 1 mm wide; ligule membranous, blunt, 1-2 mm long. Inflorescence, a green to purple, broad and open panicle to 30 cm long and 25 cm wide and fully exserted from the upper leaf sheath. Spikelets 3-5 flowered, frequently purple and more or less widely separated along the panicle branches. | ||||||||||
| Common across saline swamps and around salt lakes throughout the Victorian Volcanic Plain and scattered through the Wimmera.
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| Other Puccinellia species in Victoria include the native; Australian Saltmarsh-grass (P. stricta), the exotic volunteer; Borrer’s Saltmarsh-grass (P. fasciculata) (with which Lax Saltmarsh-grass is often found) and the exotic sown; Puccinellia (P. ciliata). A simplified key can be accessed here – Key to species. | ||||||||||
 Lax Saltmarsh-grass - panicles Photo: A J Brown |  Lax Saltmarsh-grass Photo: A J Brown |
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