Common name: Alpine Holy-grass
Hierochloe submutica F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Rhizomatous, loosely tufted perennial to 0.7 m high.
Leaves with ligule membranous, c. 4 mm long; blade flat or slightly inrolled, mostly 3–8 mm wide, ribbed and scabrid on the upper surface.
Panicle erect to nodding, sparse, compact to loosely spreading, mostly 8–15 cm long, the spikelets close along the branches. Spikelets 3-flowered, broad-elliptic, 4.5–6 mm long. Glumes hyaline, acute to obtuse, subequal, 4–6 mm long, lower 1–3-nerved, upper 3-nerved. Lower lemmas male or sterile, c. 5.5 mm long, obscurely 5-nerved, hispidulous, ciliate on the margins with long, stiff hairs, awnless or with a straight dorsal awn from below the apex not or barely reaching the apex of the lemma. Bisexual lemma c. 4.5 mm long, thinner, apex scabrous, with short, stiff, hairs.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows at high altitudes above the treeline in moist sites in high alpine herbfields and near the margins of bogs, rare; south from the Kosciusko area.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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