Rytidosperma caespitosum head1 (9210729261)

Description:

Description: Flowerheads are loosely contracted to open panicles. Spikelets are 4-9-flowered, with purple tinged glumes (14 mm or more long) in early flowering. Lemmas are 4-6 mm long (excluding lobes), 2-lobed and 1-awned, with distinct rows of hairs on the back; base of the awn is brown and tightly twisted. Palea is less than 2 mm wide and distinctly longer than the lemma body. Date: 22 November 2012, 07:47. Source: Rytidosperma caespitosum head1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.