Derivation
Garnotia Brongn. in L.I.Duperrey, Voy. Monde, Bot., Phan. 132 (1832); in honour of Dr. M.Garnot, a ship's doctor on the French ship Coquille.

stricta- Latin for erect. Inflorescence branches erect.

Published in
Allg. Bot. Z. Syst. 15: 141 (1909).

Common synonyms
Garnotia tortuosa Santos

Habit
Perennial. Short-lived. Culms erect or geniculately ascending or decumbent, 10–80 cm high, wiry, 3–5-noded. Mid-culm nodes glabrous or bearded. Lateral branches simple, or sparsely branched. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Ligule a fringed, ciliolate membrane, 0.3–0.5 mm long. Leaf-blades linear, flat, 3–40 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, surface hairy.

Inflorescence
Inflorescence compound, a panicle. Panicle contracted, linear, 5–40 cm long, 1–2 cm wide.

Spikelets
Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets 1-flowered, comprising 1 fertile floret, without rhachilla extension, lanceolate, laterally compressed, 2.5–5 mm long, falling entire. Spikelet callus pubescent, base obtuse.

Glumes
Glumes similar, thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm long, 100% of length of spikelet, membranous, 1-keeled, 3-nerved. Lower glume lateral nerves ribbed. Lower glume apex acute, muticous or awned. Lower glume awn 0–4 mm long. Upper glume lanceolate, 2.2–4.5 mm long, 100% of length of adjacent fertile lemma, membranous, 1-keeled, 3-nerved. Upper glume lateral nerves ribbed. Upper glume apex acute or acuminate, muticous or awned. Upper glume awn 0–4 mm long.

Florets
Fertile lemma oblong, 2–4.5 mm long, cartilaginous, 3-nerved. Lemma margins involute, interlocking with palea keels. Lemma apex dentate, 2-fid, muticous or 1-awned. Median (principal) awn from a sinus, straight or geniculate, 1–2 mm long overall (when straight) or 6–14 mm long overall, 8–15 mm long, without a column (when straight) or with a twisted column. Palea with auriculate flaps, 100% of length of lemma, hyaline or cartilaginous, 2-nerved. Palea keels winged (below), narrowly winged. Anthers 3. Stigmas 2, pubescent. Grain linear or oblong, 2 mm long.

Continental Distribution:
Tropical Asia, Australasia, Pacific.

Australian Distribution:
Queensland: Cook.

Classification. (GPWG 2001):
Panicoideae: Arundinelleae

Notes
Native. Occurs in the Philippines, the Moluccas, New Guinea and NE Qld. Sclerophyll forests, woodlands and rainforest margins. Flowers Nov.–July.