Common name: Brown Beetle Grass
Diplachne muelleri Benth. APNI* 
Description: Erect, tufted annual or perennial to 1.5 m high; culms 1–3-noded.
Leaves with sheath loose; ligule becoming lacerated, to 3 mm long; blade flat or incurved, 2–5 mm wide.
Panicle narrow, 7–30 cm long, branches erect, rather short. Spikelets broad-linear, almost sessile, dorsally compressed, 8–13-flowered, 12–21 mm long. Glumes 1-nerved, lower acute to mucronate, 3–4 mm long; upper acute to obtuse, 4.5–6 mm long. Lemmas 3-nerved, broad-oblong, obtuse or abruptly narrowed and 2-fid at the tip, shortly mucronate, shortly pubescent below the middle. Palea ciliate on the keels and pubescent on the margins.
Flowering: in response to flooding.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in or near water, or in depressions.
NSW subdivisions: CWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, ?SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Doubtfully distinct from D. fusca.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & K. L. MaClay
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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