Common name: Cup Grass
Eriochloa crebra S.T.Blake APNI* 
Description: Caespitose perennial to 1 m high.
Leaves with sheath smooth, glabrous; ligule c. 1 mm long; blade mostly 2–6 mm wide, upper surface minutely pubescent.
Inflorescence 10–25 cm long, with about 5–25 racemes 1.5–5 cm long, on an elongate common axis; spikelets crowded, solitary or paired, pedicels fused for a short distance at the base, the longer to 2 mm long, the other much shorter, the longer at least with a few white hairs to 2.5 mm long. Spikelets 3.7–4.2 mm long, not or scarcely aristate, sparsely hairy with appressed white hairs in the lower 60%. Lower glume cupuliform around the thickened lowest internode of the rachilla, often pallid or at length purplish or blackish; upper glume the size and shape of the spikelet, 5-nerved. Fertile lemma with a mucro c. 0.25 mm long, c. 60–70% as long as the upper glume.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry grassland on better soils.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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