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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit during the dry season (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of stem and base of leaf blades (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
mature seed-head (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
mature flower spikelets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of mature flower spikelets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
Scientific Name
Piptatherum miliaceum (L.) Coss.
Synonyms
Agrostis miliacea L.Oryzopsis miliacea (L.) Asch. & Schweinf.Piptatherum miliacea (L.) Coss.
Family
Gramineae (South Australia)Poaceae (Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory)
Common Names
many-flowered millet, many-flowered millet grass, millet, rice millet, smilo-grass, smilograss
Origin
Native to northern Africa (i.e. Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia), the Azores, the Madeira Islands, the Canary Islands, southern Europe (i.e. France, Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia) and western Asia (i.e. Cyprus, northern Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, western Syria and Turkey).
Naturalised Distribution
Wiidely naturalised in southern Australia (i.e. in New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, many parts of South Australia and south-western Western Australia).
Notes
Rice millet (Piptatherum miliaceum) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
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