Rytidosperma fulvum

Tufted perennial. Culms mostly 50–100 cm high. Leaves glabrous to lightly hairy; blade flat or channelled, rarely loosely inrolled, to 30 cm long and 3 mm wide. Panicle linear to lanceolate in outline, mostly 6–12 cm long. Spikelets occasionally purplish on margins of glumes, mostly 4–6-flowered; glumes subequal, acute to acuminate, 12–18 mm long; lemma triangular, 3–4 mm long, thin-textured, prominently nerved, more or less evenly covered by hairs commencing c. 1 mm above the callus tuft, increasing in length from lower to upper, or in fairly distinct rows; the uppermost usually 4–5 mm long; lateral lobes erect, 5–9 mm long, tapering gradually into the 2–3 mm long setiform tips; central awn exceeding lateral lobes by up to 5 mm, the basal part strongly twisted and copper-coloured; palea lanceolate to narrowly ovate with a narrow but obtuse, usually twisted apex, thinly membranous, exceeding sinus by 1.5–2.5 mm. Flowers mostly Nov.–Mar., but occasionally through the year.