Citation: Nees, Hook. Lond. J. Bot. 2:419 (1843).

Synonymy: E. chaetophylla. Steudel, Synops. Pl. glumac. 1:279 (1854).

Common name: Narrow-leaved) neverfail, bristly lovegrass.

Description:
Perennial 12-60 cm high, with a hairy slightly thickened or knotty base; culms simple, thin, wiry, glabrous or the basal internodes partly hairy, 3-6-noded; nodes glabrous or the basal ones hairy; leaves mostly glabrous, usually scaberulous; sheaths glabrous at the orifice, glabrous or ciliolate on the outer or both margins; blades tightly convolute or involute and filiform, rarely flat, densely scabrous on the upper surface and thickened margins.

Grain strongly compressed dorsally, oblong-elliptic.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 4lb; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 104.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, MU.   All mainland States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year.

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

Biology: Moderately palatable.

Author: Not yet available