Common name: Erect Hedgehog Grass
Echinopogon intermedius C.E.Hubb. APNI* 
Description: Loosely tufted perennial to 0.9 m high, arising from a slender rhizome.
Leaves with sheath glabrous, mostly retrorsely scabrid; ligule truncate, 1–3 mm long; blade 3–10 mm wide, acute, glabrous, scabrous.
Panicle erect, dense, ovate, ovate-oblong or oblong, 25–65 mm long, 20–40 mm wide (including awns). Spikelets linear-oblong, 4.5–7 mm long, lower ones at length horizontally spreading. Glumes narrow-lanceolate, acuminate to acute, keel ciliate. Lemma shorter or longer than glumes, linear-lanceolate in outline, 5–7-nerved, 4–5 mm long, bilobed, lobes 2–2.5 mm long; callus obtuse, minute, hairs c. 2 mm long, densely bearded; awn rigid, 8–30 mm long, minutely hispid below, scabrid above. Palea shorter than lemma, lanceolate, keel apex becoming scabrid-ciliolate.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open areas in forest, often on creek banks and in damp sites.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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