Cenchrus setaceus spikelet5 NC - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man

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Summary[edit] Description: Introduced, warm season, perennial, densely tufted grass to 90 cm tall. Leaves have a ligule with a ciliate rim; blades are green, to 3.5 mm wide and scabrous on the upper surface and margins. Panicles are spike-like, moderately dense, conspicuously plumose and 10–25 cm long. Spikelets are solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3 and 4.5–6.5 mm long. Bristles in each involucre, loosely plumose and unequal (mostly to 26 mm long but 1 usually to 40 mm long). Lower glume is a hyaline scale or suppressed; the upper is to 5 mm long. Lower lemma is sterile or rarely male; palea is suppressed or nearly as long as the lemma. Upper lemma is bisexual or male and as long as the spikelet; it has a mucro to 1 mm long. Flowering is in spring and summer. Cultivated as an ornamental, and occasionally escapes from cultivation. A class 5 noxious weed in NSW. Date: 5 December 2015, 07:02. Source: Cenchrus setaceus spikelet5 NC. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location32° 23′ 50.37″ S, 151° 45′ 38.27″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-32.397324; 151.760631.