Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 5:205 (1866).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Three-awned wanderrie, broad-leaved wandertie grass.

Description:
Densely tufted annual or short-lived perennial; stems bearded at the nodes, slender, 8-40 cm high; leaves flat, bearded at the orifice of the sheath; panicle loose, 4-7 cm long, c. 3.5 cm broad, consisting of few spreading branches bearing relatively few solitary spikelets on very short or long stalks.

Spikelets c. 8-10 mm long (excluding the awns), with 2 florets; glumes turning purplish, about as long as the spikelet, with long spreading tubercle-based hairs; lemma rather shorter, villous on the back, tapering into an awn as long as or longer than the glume; palea hairy, 2-fid, with 2 long points.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 43a; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 105.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, GT.   All mainland States except Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year but usually in winter, according to AD records; Lazarides says mainly in summer.

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

Biology: No text

Uses: Probably palatable when green.

Author: Not yet available