''Setaria dielsii'', commonly known as Diels' pigeon grass, is a species of grass in the family

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

native to Australia.

Description

It is an annual grass that grows in tufts from 20 to 130 centimetres high. It has green flowers that occur in an open

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

Taxonomy

This species was first published by Rudolf Albert Wolfgang Herrmann in 1910. Its only synonym is ''Setaria buchananii'', published by Albert Spear Hitchcock in 1927.

Distribution and habitat

It occurs in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q7456360 dielsii Bunchgrasses of Australasia Poales of Australia Angiosperms of Western Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Taxa named by A. S. Hitchcock