Seed heads. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, NSW

Seeding plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, NSW

Common Name

Hill Wallaby Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Perennial grass 20-70cm tall.  Leaves with a hairy or hairless sheath at the base.  Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaves 10-25cm long, 1-2mm wide, threadlike with the leaf edges rolled in, rarely flat, more or less hairy.  Spikelets greenish tinged purple, 11-18mm long excluding the longest awn.  Mature seed groups spreading or oval.  Seeds with three awns.  Was Austrodanthonia eriantha.

Description and photo of plant (page 82) and line drawing of seed (page 80 Fig. 16e) (as Danthonia eriantha) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Rytidosperma~erianthum

ausgrass2 description, photos, and line drawings:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/rytidosperma-erianthum