Common Name

Silky Umbrella Grass, Spider Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Perennial grass to 80cm tall. Leaves with a hairy sheath at the base. Ligule a membrane without a fringe of hairs. Leaves 4-20cm long, 2-8mm wide, flat, hairy, with pointed tips. Spikelets 2-3mm long. Seeds hairy, with 0 bristles. Mature seed groups cylindrical, in digitate groups up an axis. Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 84

PlantNET description with line drawings and photos of dried specimens:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Digitaria~ammophila

ausgrass2 description with line drawings and photo:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/digitaria-ammophila