Common name: Mountain Wanderrie Grass
Eriachne mucronata R.Br. APNI* 
Description: Caespitose or hummock perennial to 0.6 m high; base hairy, thickened by overlapping cataphylls.
Leaves with ligule a row of cilia c. 0.5 mm long; blade tightly rolled, rarely flat, sharply pointed, straight or curved, 1–2 mm wide, glabrous or with sparse tubercle-based hairs.
Inflorescence a compact panicle, 1–7 cm long, c. 1 cm wide. Spikelets of 2 florets, pale or straw-coloured, widely gaping at maturity. Glumes aristate, equal, 4–6 mm long, glabrous. Lemmas aristate, 5–7 mm long, pilose on lower half and margins, hairs to 4 mm long, margins membranous. Palea silky on lower 65%, hairs to 3 mm, glabrous near apex; 2-lobed, the lobes c. 0.5 mm long.
Flowering: in response to rain.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on skeletal soils on hillsides with mulga, also found along dry watercourses.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & K. L. McClay
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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