Common name: Pretty Wanderrie Grass
Eriachne pulchella Domin APNI* Synonyms: Eriachne pulchella Domin subsp. pulchella APNI*
Description: Densely tufted annual to 0.2 m high; nodes 1–3, often constricted, glabrous or with sparse hairs to 1 mm long.
Several leaves with blade poorly developed on sheath; blade with tubercle-based hairs to 2 mm long, mature blade flat, 1–3 mm wide with sparse hairs; sheath loose, shorter than internodes, glabrous; ligule a ciliate rim of hairs c. 0.5 mm long, with hairs c. 2 mm long at each end.
Inflorescence a compact panicle, 1–3 cm long, 8–10 mm wide. Spikelets of 2 florets. Glumes acute, equal, c. 4 mm long, ribbed, glabrous. Lemmas awnless, aristate, c. 4 mm long, silky on lower half and on lower 65% of margins, hairs to 1 mm, upper half glabrous. Palea glabrous or with basal silky hairs to 2 mm long, keels and apex ciliate; 2-lobed, the lobes c. 1 mm long.
Flowering: in response to rain.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on sandy soils in flat and hilly country.
NSW subdivisions: NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld N.T. S.A. W.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & K. L. McClay
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