Melinis repens head10 - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man

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Summary[edit] Description: Introduced, warm-season, annual or short-lived perennial, loosely tufted and hairy grass to 1.2 m tall. Stems often root at the lower nodes. Ligule are ciliate rims with hairs to 2 mm long. Leaves are hairless or have tubercle-based hairs to 1 mm long (especially along basal margins). Flowerheads are white, pink or red open panicles 7-17 cm long. Spikelets are 3-5 mm long, 2-flowered, unawned or with 2 short awns and covered in silky, shiny red, pink or white hairs. Flowers in summer. A native of Africa, it was possibly introduced as a pasture species, but is now mostly only naturalised on roadsides and in wastelands. Rarely occurs in paddocks, except if badly degraded and little grazed. Date: 13 February 2016, 09:32. Source: Melinis repens head10. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia.