Citation: N. Burb., Proc. Linn. Soc., Lond. 153:67, 68 (1941).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tall bottle-washers.

Description:
Perennial 30-70 cm high, with a pubescent slightly thickened base; culms branched, hirsute with mainly simple hairs; leaves pubescent with mainly glandular hairs; blades involute, acute, scabrous.

Panicle 3-13.5 x 1.5-2.5 cm (including the awns), spike-like, pubescent with glandular hairs on the peduncle, axis and branches; spikelet 3-6-flowered with 2 florets fertile; glumes membranous, lanceolate or oblong to ovate or elliptic, acute or obtuse, entire or erose, pilose near the margins or hispid with glandular hairs; lower 3.5-7 mm long, 7-16-nerved; upper 4.5-8.5 mm long, 6-11-nerved; lowest floret: body 2.2-3.6 mm long, hardened, smooth or the nerves slightly corrugated, bearded with hairs longer than the body itself, glabrous or sparsely ciliate on the margins; awns 3.6-9 mm long; palea of lowest floret: body pubescent on its greater part; flaps hirsute; keels ciliate in the upper part, glabrous below; grain 1.3-2.2 x 0.8-1.6 mm, broadly obovoid; second floret: similar to the first though smaller; lemma with a basal tuft of hairs or glabrous; third floret: sterile, with a glabrous lemma and a pubescent palea; rhachilla sparsely pubescent.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 95.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, FR, EP, NL.   All mainland States except Vic. 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

Biology: Previously confused with E. polyphyllus, which E. intermedius closely resembles, but in the former species the palea is glabrous in the upper one-half to two-thirds, only 1 floret is fertile and the structure of the sterile florets is quite different.

Author: Not yet available