Common name: Long Greybeard Grass
Amphipogon caricinus var. caricinus F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Erect, rather rigid tufted perennial to 0.5 m high, sometimes with a very short, compact, erect or oblique rhizome; culms lightly striate, smooth or almost so, c. 4-noded, sometimes slightly geniculate at the nodes.
Leaves with sheath smooth or almost so, usually glabrous, closely enclosing the culms; ligule shortly ciliate; blade usually convolute, finely pointed, usually glabrous.
Panicle at length exserted, 2–6 cm long, spike-like. Spikelets 7–9 mm long, pale to straw-coloured, sometimes tinged with purple. Glumes 3-nerved. Lemma strongly 3-nerved, the lobes often twice as long as the body of the lemma, narrowed into bristles. Palea almost as long as the lemma, smooth.
Flowering: in response to rain.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in hilly areas with sandy skeletal or red earth soils.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. W.A. S.A. N.T.
| The single variety in NSW. Characters and distribution as for the species in NSW. |
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