Citation: S.T. Blake, Contr. Qld Herb. 13:32 (1972).

Synonymy: Neurachne multiculmis Pilger in Diels & Pritzel, Bot. Jb. 35:68 (1904).

Common name: None

Description:
Base woolly; tufted, c. 15-50 cm high; lower nodes of the culms silky-pubescent, the upper ones glabrous or sparsely hairy; leaves abruptly contracted at the base, lower surface pubescent or glabrescent, tubercle-based hairs on both surfaces and the margins, 2.5-6 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, sheaths often longer than the internodes.

Racemes linear in outline, much interrupted towards the base, 50-90 mm long, usually 5-7 mm broad (excluding the bristles), the stem silky beneath the inflorescence, glabrescent above; spikelets bearded at the base, 5.1-6.8 mm long (excluding the bristles), 1.6-2.1 mm broad, pubescent, with bristles the longer of which are 2-2.7 mm long; glumes with the nerves between the keels narrower than the space between them, first glume c. 4.5-6 mm long, rigid, 5-nerved, 3-toothed to truncate apically and not acuminate, with a hyaline cavity mainly in the lower half, pubescent but villous on the sides near the base, glabrous along the margins and ciliolate at the tip; the second glume similar in length, pilose-pubescent with ciliate margins, acuminate; first lemma 3-nerved, hairy, male or sterile, c. 4-5.6 mm long; second (fertile) lemma as long as the spikelet, scarious, long-beaked.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: not available.

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

Biology: No text

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