Common Name

Sickle Lovegrass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Perennial grass, sprawling or to 60cm tall.  Leaves with a rough hairy sheath at the base.  Ligule a frnge of hairs. Leaves 2-8cm long, to 1mm wide, threadlike, folded together lengwise, or rolled, hairless or hairy, often bristly.  Spikelets 3-43mm long. Mature seed groups cylindrical to spreading. Seeds with 0 bristles.  Poorly known Vic.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 100

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

ausgrass2 description, photo, and line drawings:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/eragrostis-falcata