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Common Names
Origin
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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)

Piptatherum miliaceum

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.