Citation: Domin, J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 41:281 (1912).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Knotty-butt neverfail.

Description:
Perennial 16-50 cm high, with a pubescent or woolly knotty rhizome of bulbous segments; culms terete or the lower internodes compressed, simple, wiry, scabrous, usually 5- to many-noded; leaves coriaceous, usually scaberulous; sheaths glabrous at the orifice, often scaberulous or ciliolate on the outer or both margins; blades to 6 cm long and to 4.5 mm wide, flat or tightly convolute to complicate, stiffly straight or strongly recurved, densely scabrous on the upper surface and thickened margins.

Grain terete, or subterete and then flattened on the back, ovoid or elliptic.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 41c; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 105.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, MU.   All mainland States except N.S.W. and Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Jan. — April.

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

Biology: Moderately palatable.

Author: Not yet available