Citation: Hartley, J. Linn. Soc.(Bot.) 52:346 (1942).

Synonymy: E. mucronata sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 71 (1922), non R. Br.; E. mucronata R. Br. var. helmsii Domin, Biblthca bot. 85:361 (1915).

Common name: Woollybutt wanderrie, buck wanderrie grass.

Description:
Coarse perennial, erect or spreading or sometimes decumbent, forming loose straggly tussocks 45-90 cm high and to 75 cm wide; base densely woolly, thickened; leaves 2.5-10 cm long, flat or narrowly rolled, stiffly spreading, firmly pointed, somewhat rough.

Panicle narrow, exserted, 5-11 cm long, 1-2 cm broad; spikelets 5-6 mm long, on pedicels 2-4 mm long, with 2 florets; glumes pale or straw-coloured, nearly as long as the spikelet, glabrous, 9-13-nerved; lemma rather longer than the glumes, exserted, almost obtuse at the summit, with a minute mucro and 2 minute terminal rounded lobes.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 45a; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 106.

Distribution:  Common in central Australia on a wide range of soils. S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, EP.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: April — July.

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

Biology: Often heavily grazed despite unpalatable appearance.

Author: Not yet available