Paspalidium Stapf

Bristle terminating the inflorescence branches less than 8 mm long. Spikelets obtuse Paspalidium

Spikelets usually in 2 rows, usually many to each branch. Spikelets close together on the rhachis and usually touching

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Leaf blades 3–8 mm wide. Lower glume inflated at the base. Spikelets mostly 2.5 mm long, bending away from the rhachis. Leaf blade scabrous or glabrous. Ascending perennial, usually >1 m high, sometimes rooting at the nodes. Hornsby Plateau and Cumberland Plain. Clay soils. Fl. summer Paspalidium aversum

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Leaf blades 1–3 mm wide. Spikelets mostly 1.5–2 mm long, sessile, overlapping. Lower glume not inflated