Setaria palmifolia (J.Koenig) Stapf

Stapf, O. (1914) Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 42: 186.

Plamgrass

Usually flowers and fruits as a shrub about 1.5 m tall.

Leaf blades about 10-35 x 1-5 cm, upper and lower surfaces clothed in long bristle-like hairs. Venation longitudinal and accentuated by longitudinal folds in the leaf blade.

Inflorescence a large open panicle. Spikelets about 3 mm long. Glumes with five longitudinal veins. Stigmas plumose.

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An introduced species originally from the Old World tropics now naturalised in NEQ and in south-eastern Queensland southwards to central coastal New South Wales. Altitudinal range in NEQ not known but collected at 750 m. Grows on the margins of well developed rain forest on the Atherton Tableland on soils derived from basalt.