Citation: F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:592 (1878).

Synonymy: Notodanthonia carphoides (F. Muell. ex Benth.) Zotov, New Zealand J. Bot. 1:113 (1963); Rytidosperma carphoides (F. Muell. ex Benth.)Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 17:331 (1979).

Common name: Short wallaby-grass.

Description:
Rather small tufted perennial, erect or somewhat geniculate at the nodes, 10-40 cm high; leaves inrolled-filiform, abaxial surface glabrous or with short scattered 0.5-1 mm long hairs; ligule a ring of short cilia c. 0.5 mm long, collar hairs c. 1.5 mm long.

Panicle or raceme dense, ovoid, 1.5-4 cm long; spikelets few, 7-10 mm long, 3-6-flowered, on very short pedicels; glumes 6-8 mm long, subequal, 5-9- nerved, with wide scarious margins; body of the lemma 3-6 mm long, turbinate, hairs c. 2 mm long scattered over the back with the uppermost row c. 4 mm long; lobes of the lemma broad about as long as the body of the lemma, not or only minutely awned; central awn a short thick structure, twisted once or not at all, equal to or somewhat exceeding the lobes; palea broad-obovate, 4-6 mm long, reaching the sinus, pubescent on the lower two-thirds of the back, ciliate on the keels; anthers pale-yellow to yellow-orange, 0.5-1.5 mm long; grain c. 2 mm long, obovate.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Australian grasses 1: pl. 35a.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

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