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| Description | Native yearlong-green perennial tufted C3 grass; stems are hairy, wiry, branched and grow 10-50 cm tall, arising from short densely woolly rhizomes; nodes are hairy. Leaf blades are short and widely diverging from the stems and have constricted collars. Flowerheads are short spike-like racemes 2-6 cm long; the stem directly below the flowerhead is hairy. Spikelets are 4.5–7.5 mm long, 1.6–2 mm wide and 2-flowered; the middle and upper spikelets are hairy; glumes are longer than the lemmas and covered in distinctive patterns of warts and tubercle-based bristles. Flowers mostly in spring and autumn. Often found on well-drained red earths and sandy or stony soils on flats and stony ridges in range of woodland and forest types. It is commonly associated with wire grasses and is most common along the western margins of the Slopes and on the Plains. Native biodiversity. An indicator of good pasture condition. Drought, fire and frost tolerant. Even though it is a wiry grass it provides useful palatable forage, but tends to be low yielding. Most growth is in spring, but it can grow year-round if moisture is available; growth tends to be prostrate in winter and erect in summer. Seed production and survival declines with heavy grazing; young plants often die if more than half of their growth is removed; these are then commonly replaced by less desirable wire grasses. |
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| Source | Thyridolepis mitchelliana stem base2 Dubbo |
| Author | Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Macleay Grass Man at https://flickr.com/photos/73840284@N04/27515584932. It was reviewed on 22 October 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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