Flora of Victoria

Culms to 40 cm high. Leaves glabrous, minutely scabrous along nerves; blade inrolled, to 8 cm long and 0.5 mm wide; ligule toothed at apex, to 5 mm long. Panicle initially contracted with erect branches, finally open to sparse with spreading branches, to 15 cm long and 12 cm wide. Spikelets 2–3.5 mm long; glumes equal, acute; lemmas (excluding membranous apical lobes) about three-quarters as long as glumes, glabrous except for short callus hairs, minutely scabrous; awn present on both lemmas, inserted about one-third from base, 2.5–4 mm long. Flowers Sep.-Dec.

*CVU, *DunT, *EGL, *EGU, *GipP, *Gold, *GGr, *HNF, *HSF, *LoM, *MonT, *MuF, *NIS, *OtP, *OtR, *SnM, *Strz, *VAlp, *VRiv, *VVP, *WaP, *WPro, *Wim. Naturalized in all States except NT, also widely in e.g. southern Africa, the Americas, New Zealand. Indigenous to Europe, northern Africa, western Asia. In Victoria, occurs across a wide range of habitats, but not in perpetually moist sites or semi-arid areas.

Source: Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Updated by: Frank Udovicic, 2014-08-25

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Lilianae

order Poales

family Poaceae

genus Aira

Higher taxa

species Aira caryophyllea L.

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Aira caryophyllea in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Aira caryophyllea in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Lowan Mallee	present	naturalised
Wimmera	present	introduced
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	naturalised
Victorian Riverina	present	introduced
Murray Fans	present	introduced
Gippsland Plain	present	naturalised
Otway Plain	present	introduced
Warrnambool Plain	present	introduced
Goldfields	present	introduced
Central Victorian Uplands	present	naturalised
Greater Grampians	present	naturalised
Dundas Tablelands	present	naturalised
Northern Inland Slopes	present	naturalised
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	naturalised
East Gippsland Uplands	present	introduced
Wilsons Promontory	present	naturalised
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	introduced
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	naturalised
Otway Ranges	present	introduced
Strzelecki Ranges	present	naturalised
Monaro Tablelands	present	introduced
Victorian Alps	present	introduced
Snowy Mountains	present	introduced

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
Western Australia
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania

Aira caryophyllea L.

Silvery Hair-grass

Victoria

State distribution