Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 196 (1810).

Description:
Densely tufted with short horizontal rhizomes; leaf blades linear; ligule of hairs.

Inflorescence a well exserted spike-like raceme; spikelets dorsally compressed, with 1 bisexual floret and a male or sterile floret below, bearded at the base; glumes 2, longer than the florets, diverging upwards, narrowly ovate, more or less acuminate, rigidly membranous but more or less indurated, subequal, several-nerved, 2-keeled, the second with a dense narrow beard of long hairs; first lemma resembling or thinner than the glumes or more or less coriaceous below with hyaline margins, 5-7-nerved, 2-keeled, second (fertile) lemma not longer than the first, membranous to hyaline, 1-5-nerved, with thinly hyaline ciliate margins.

Distribution:  6 Australian species (S. T. Blake (1972) Contr. Qld Herb. 13). Mulga-grasses.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. First glume 5-nerved in the lower half, shortly awned; spikelets 8-13 mm long
2. Sheaths not woolly outside; upper floret 5-6.4 mm long	N. alopecuroidea 1.
2. Sheaths densely woolly outside; upper floret 8-8.5 mm long	N. lanigera 2.
1. First glume 3-ribbed in the lower half on the back, awnless; spikelets to 7 mm long	N. munroi 3.

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