Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:415 (1878).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Stems slender, 30-80 cm high; leaves erect, filiform, smooth, with involute margins, nearly as long as the stem, with long fine hooked or curved not pungent points, the sheaths woolly at the orifice.

Panicle narrow, 15-40 cm long, interrupted; spikelets approximate but not clustered, c. 3.5 mm long, 2-flowered; lower glumes acuminate; stamens 3 or 4.

Nut narrow-obovoid, bluntly acute, gradually cuneate to an obtuse base, 1.8-2 x 0.8-1 mm, trigonous, with convex sides, green-brown to red-brown, glistening, very finely papillose in longitudinal rows.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, SL.   W.Aust.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Fowers: throughout the year.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available