Plants. Photo: Tony Rodd, Lake Illawarra, NSW

Seeds on stem. Photo: Tony Rodd, Lake Illawarra, NSW

Spikelets. Photo: Tony Rodd, Lake Illawarra, NSW

Leaves. Photo: Tony Rodd, Lake Illawarra, NSW

Common Name

None

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Perennial grass to 80cm tall. Leaves with a hairy or hairless sheath at the base. Ligule a membrane without a fringe of hairs. Leaves 5-40cm long, 2-4mm wide, flat or the edges rolled in, glaucous, margins rough. Spikelets 25-50mm long. Seeds with 1 awn, in groups of 4-8. Mature seed groups cylindrical. Poorly known Vic (as Elymus scaber var. plurinervis).

Differs from Elymus scaber in that the awns on the seeds are uniformly curved backwards when dry.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Elymus~plurinervis

ausgrass2 map with photo (as Anthosachne plurinervis):  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/anthosachne-plurinervis

Description in Ausgrass CD (as Elymus scaber var. plurinervis)