Rhizomatous perennials. Stems procumbent, scabrous, culms prostrate or ascending, to 40 cm high. Leaves glabrous or with tubercle-based hairs; blade flat, to 18 cm long and 12 mm wide; ligule 0.5–1 mm long. Panicle 5–15 cm long, primary branches appressed to widely spreading, mostly 2–7 cm long. Spikelet 2.4–3.5 mm long; lower glume nerveless, or rarely, weakly 1-nerved, broadly to narrowly ovate, 0.4–1.2 mm long; upper glume 5–7-nerved, subequal or equal to spikelet; lower lemma equal to upper glume; fertile lemma elliptic, 1 mm shorter than to subequal to lower lemma, covered with appressed white hairs, firmer than other segments but not hard; palea subequal to fertile lemma, and similarly hairy. Flowers Oct.–May.
VRiv, GipP, CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, Strz, HFE. Also Qld, NSW. Occurs in damp woodlands, forests and heathlands, uncommon in the western part of its range (e.g. Frankston, Tynong) but common throughout the lowlands eastwards from about Bairnsdale, with disjunct occurrences from near Ruffy, Cheshunt and Dartmouth in the north-east. .
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
