Citation: Pilger in Diels & E. Pritzel, Bot. Jb. 35:76 (1904) var. dielsii.

Synonymy: E. falcata sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:649 (1878), non Gaudich. , Eragrostis dielsii

Common name: Mulka grass, mulka, mallee lovegrass.

Description:
Annual or short-lived perennial 3-55 cm high; perennial plants slightly thickened and sparsely hairy at the base; culms erect or ascending or prostrate, simple or branched, up to 5-noded, usually scabrous or hispid, often the lower internodes and nodes hirsute; leaves usually glabrous and scabrous; blades at first flat and up to 3.5 mm wide, soon becoming complicate or involute, often extremely slender.

Grain strongly compressed dorsiventrally, oblong or ovate to elliptic.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 38a; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 99.

Distribution:  Often grows in areas of high salinity. S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL.   All mainland States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers; throughout the year.

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

Biology: No text

Uses: Palatable to stock.

Author: Not yet available