Citation: S.T. Blake, Pap. Biol. Univ. Qld 1, 19:8 (1941).

Synonymy: Neurachne paradoxa R. Br. in Sturt, Exped. Centr. Aust., Bot. App. 89 (1849); Spinifex paradoxa (R. Br.)Benth., Hook. Ic. tt. 1243 & 1244 (1877).

Common name: Sandhill cane-grass.

Description:
Glabrous plant with long rigid spreading branching stems, creeping at the base; leaves short, with a ligule of hairs.

Heads of spikelets small (c. 1.5 cm diam.); male spikelet c. 6 mm long; glumes much shorter than the lemmas; spikelets of female plant usually enclosed in hardened straw-coloured bracts irregularly winged on the back and sometimes with a short rigid horn; first lemma with a palea; second (fertile) lemma ovoid, acute, shining and smooth, pubescent near the summit.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 154.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EA, EP.   All mainland States except W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Sept.

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

Biology: A sand-binder. Grazed when young.

Author: Not yet available