Citation: S.T. Blake, Contr. Qld Herb. 13:10 (1972).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Stems 15-30 cm high, woolly at the base; nodes densely pubescent; leaves mostly basal, 8-13 cm long, 0.9-2 mm broad, rigid, flat or involute, pubescent or glabrous.

Racemes oblong, 3-4 cm long, dirty-green; spikelets bearded at the base; glumes pubescent or villous, acuminate with long points, the first flat, green, 5-nerved, the second 9-nerved, densely ciliate upwards, the hairs increasing in length downwards and also forming a dense beard extending towards the mid-veins; first lemma also herbaceous, 5-nerved, almost hirsute above the middle, pubescent towards the base, with a palea 1.5-2 mm long, second (fertile) lemma c. 8 mm long, scaberulous above, shortly ciliate on the upper margins.

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

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

Biology: Very similar to N. alopecuroidea, differing only in the hairs on the leaf sheaths and spikelets and in the size and shape of the lemmas and paleas.

Author: Not yet available