Eragrostis brownii
(Kunth) Nees ex Wight Common Love-grassVariable, tufted perennial, culms decumbent to erect, to 60 cm high. Leaves glabrous; blade flat, or rarely, inrolled, to 30 cm long and 4 mm wide. Inflorescence varying from a slender panicle as short as 4 cm, sometimes with clusters of subsessile spikelets, to an open panicle with widely spreading branches to 30 cm long and 20 cm wide, lower branches solitary, more than 1 cm long, initially erect but finally spreading or reflexed. Spikelets subsessile, but those at the ends of branchlets often appearing distinctly pedicellate, 6–20-flowered, 4–12 mm long, dull grey-green to purplish-green, sometimes glaucous; glumes acute to obtuse, c. 1–2.5 mm long, subequal or the upper up to 0.7 mm longer than lower; lemma about as long as upper glume, acute; palea slightly shorter than lemma; anthers 0.3–1.3 mm long; grain more or less ovoid, 0.6–0.8 mm long. Flowers Nov.–May.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, VAlp. All States (naturalised in Tas.). Introduced into Hawaii and New Zealand. Occurs commonly in the cooler lowlands, especially in low-lying areas and those adjoining streams, swamps, etc. Absent from the higher mountains but locally common in river valleys separating them; uncommon in the drier north-west.
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.
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