Citation: C.E. Hubb., Kew Bull. 1934:449 (1934).

Synonymy: E. clelandii S.T. Blake, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 67:49(1943).

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial 15-90 cm high, with a woolly somewhat thickened or knotty base; culms simple or sparsely branched, smooth or scaberulous, wiry, 2-6-noded; leaves usually mostly glabrous and scaberulous; sheaths sometimes ciliolate to pilose on both margins, glabrous or bearded at the orifice; blades flat and to 2.5 mm wide or involute, flexuose or stiffly spreading, hispid-scabrous on the upper surface.

Panicle 5-20 x 1.5-8 cm, loose; axis and divisions smooth or scaberulous, rigid; primary branches usually 3-7 cm long, simple or sparsely divided, spikelet-bearing from near the base; spikelets 2.5-10 x 2-4 mm, loosely 5-20(often 9-) flowered, oblong or ovate, obtuse to truncate at the apex; rhachilla persistent, straight or slightly flexuose, internodes c. 0.5 mm long; glumes broadly ovate, broadly obtuse, sometimes mucronulate, with a thickened or fibbed keel, ciliate on the margins, scabrous at least on the keel, 1.2-1.5 mm long; lemmas 1.7-2.3 mm long, often as wide as long, cartilaginous and often purple with thinner colourless margins, broadly elliptic to obovate or orbicular, obtuse or truncate, mucronate, pilose (with tangled or woolly hairs) or ciliate on margins in the lower part, smooth or puberulent-granular-scabrous on the surface, scaberulous or smooth near the apex on the keel, often gibbous in profile; lateral nerves often green; paleas deciduous, hyaline, oblong or obovate, obtuse to truncate; keels pilose or ciliate with woolly hairs (the hairs longer and tangled in the lower part, shorter and straight in the upper part).

Grain obtusely trigonous, broadly elliptic-ovate.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT.   W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

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

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