Citation: F. Muell. ex Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 2:124 (1858).

Synonymy: P. caespitosa Forster var. tenera (F. Muell. ex Hook f.) Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:653 (1878); P. humifusa J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 66:248 (1943).

Common name: Slender tussock grass.

Description:
Green flaccid trailing perennial, or sometimes forming tussocks, with long stolons; shoots (or some of them) at first enclosed in delicate scales; leaf blades often flat, linear, smooth or scabfid, 5-20 cm long; culms very slender and weak.

Panicle 2-12 cm long, delicately spreading with filiform branches bearing few spikelets towards the apices; spikelets compressed, 2-4-flowered, green or rarely purplish; glumes l-3-nerved, thin and rather delicate; lemmas 2-3 mm long, distinctly 5-nerved, minutely pubescent on the internerves, nerves and margins or glabrous; web often obsolete.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, SL, KI, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Jan and 1 record for May.

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

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