Agrostis meionectes Vickery,
Vegetative form. Annual, caespitose.
Culms to 20 cm high, 3 noded. Mid-culm
nodes glabrous. Mid-culm internodes slender, terete. Leaves
non-auriculate. Basal leaf sheaths not keeled, terete, with the veins equally
striate. Ligule to 5 mm
long, membranous, acuminate or acute, becoming laciniate. Leaf blades
flat or folded, 0.4-1.8 mm wide; with margins scabrous, apices acuminose;
convolute in bud.
Reproductive organization. Plants bisexual. Incomplete spikelets absent. Inflorescence of chasmogamous spikelets.
Inflorescence. Inflorescence a panicle, purple to pallid (straw-coloured), open, symmetrical (pyramidal at maturity), fully exserted. Rachides 100 mm long. Primary inflorescence branches spreading to divaricate.
Hermaphrodite (`perfect') spikelets. Hermaphrodite spikelets pedicellate, c. 2 mm long, laterally compressed, not disarticulating as a separate unit, disarticulating above the glumes. Pedicels slender. Glumes two per spikelet, diverging from the spikelets, similar, subequal, exceeding the florets, longer than the proximal lemma. Lower glume longer than the upper glume, membranous, keeled, acuminate to acute, muticous; 1 veined, midvein scabrous. Upper glume membranous, keeled, acuminate to acute, muticous; 1 veined, midvein scabrous. Rudimentary florets absent. Incomplete florets absent. Hermaphrodite florets 1 per spikelet. Callus present, blunt. Lemma less firm than the glumes, oblong to ovate, 2-2.5 mm long, not keeled, truncate, erose, 4 -lobed. Palea fully developed (?), hyaline. Lodicules 2, hyaline, ovate. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous. Styles 2, free to their bases.
Fruit. Fruit not seen.
Distribution. Endemic. New South Wales and Victoria.
Ecology. Mesophytic. In alpine and subalpine moist, mossy sites. Flowers summer.
Classification. Pooideae; Poodae; Aveneae.
References. Morphology: Jacobs & Hastings (1994).
Cite this publication as:
C.M. Weiller, M.J.
Henwood, J. Lenz and L. Watson (1995 onwards). `Pooideae (Poaceae) in
Australia - Descriptions and Illustrations'. URL
http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/delta/
Dallwitz
(1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993)
should also be cited.