Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 53:261 (1929).

Synonymy: Notodanthonia auriculata (J. Black) Zotov, New Zealand J. Bot. 1:113 (1963); Rytidosperma auriculatum (J. Black)Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 17:322 (1979).

Common name: Lobed wallaby-grass.

Description:
Erect slender tufted perennial, 15-50 cm high, sometimes geniculate at the base; leaves rather short, 2-10 cm long, flat or inrolled, c. 2 mm broad, more or less dense hairs c. 1 mm long on the abaxial surface and c. 0.5 mm long on the adaxial surface; ligule reduced to a ring of short cilia c. 0.5 mm long, with hairs c. 1.5 mm long at the edge of the collar.

Panicle exserted, dense, ovate to oblong, compact, sometimes reduced to a raceme; pedicels pilose with c. 2 mm long hairs; spikelets about 6-flowered, shorter than the glumes; glumes broad, 9-11-nerved, pale-green, 9-16 mm long, body of the lemma 3.5-4 mm long (including callus of 0.5-1 mm); a conspicuous whorl of tufts of hairs above the callus and below the sinus, the latter hairs 5-7 mm long, the former hairs 2-3 mm long; lateral lobes 8-12 mm long, narrowing abruptly after c. 4 mm into 4-5 mm long awns, the membranous outer margins terminating abruptly in a membranous lobe or auricle; central awn strongly twisted 2 or more times in the lower part, 2-3 mm longer than the lateral lobes; palea exceeding the sinus by less than 1 mm, obovate to oblong, cuneate, obtuse, pubescent on the lower half of the back; anthers yellow-orange, 1.5-2 mm long; grain obovate, c. 2 mm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1966) Australian grasses 1 :pl. 35c.

Distribution:    N.S.W.; Vic..   Introduced into New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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