Amphibromus nervosus
(Hook.f.) Baill Common Swamp Wallaby-grassTufted perennial (rarely rooting at the nodes); culms to 1.2 m high. Leaves glabrous, smooth or slightly scabrous; blade flat, folded or inrolled, to 30 cm long and 1.5–3.5 mm wide; ligule acute, 7–20 mm long. Inflorescence a slender, erect panicle, often interrupted and incompletely exserted, to 40 cm long. Spikelets 4–6-flowered, 10–16 mm long (excluding awns), green; glumes obtuse, often erose at apex, the lower 1–3-nerved, 3–5.5 mm long, the upper 3–5-nerved, 4–6.5 mm long; lemma 5–7.2 mm long, sparsely to moderately scabrous, apical teeth 2, or if 4, the lateral pair reduced, inner pair 0.3–1 mm long; awn 12–22 mm long, inserted 40–55% of the lemma length from the apex, column 4–9 mm long; palea slightly shorter than lemma. Flowers Oct.–Jan.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, WPro, HSF, HNF, Strz, MonT, VAlp. Also WA, SA, NSW. The commonest species of Amphibromus in Victoria, occurring in swamps and drains on a wide variety of soils, including mallee sands, cracking basaltic clays, alluvium etc. Formerly included within A. neesii.
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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