Enneapogon truncatus Kakudidi APNI* 
Description: Tufted perennial to 0.6 m high; culms few-noded, usually branched, not disarticulating, mostly glabrous.
Leaves with blade involute or convolute, to 2.5 mm wide, antrorsely scaberulous, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.
Panicle spicate, prominently exserted, 3–10 cm long, to 3 cm wide; axillary inflorescences absent. Spikelets 3- or 4-flowered, 1 fertile. Glumes usually acute, entire, muticous or the lower mucronulate, 3–6.5 mm long, 5–10-nerved. Body of basal lemma 1.8–2.8 mm long, 9–11-nerved, nerves strongly ribbed; awns 2–6.5 mm long, plumose in the lower 75%. Palea membranous, exceeding the body of the lemma by almost 1 mm. Lemma of second floret at least 50% the size of lower lemma.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open woodland or grassland.
NSW subdivisions: NT, NWS, CWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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