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Glumes stiff-hispid; spikelets ± loosely arranged on one side of the rhachis Echinochloa
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Spikelets awnless
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Fruit 1.4–2 mm long, 1.1–1.6 mm wide. Panicle less compact, if densely crowded then more openly spreading
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Spikelets c. 3 mm long, green, awnless. Bases of inflorescence branches pubescent or with a few bristles. Culms up to 60 cm high. Coast and Cumberland Plain. Garden weed; pastures, particularly on clay soils and floodways. Fl. summer. Awnless Barnyard Grass Echinochloa colona