Short Wallaby-grass

Short Wallaby-grass
© Short Wallaby-grass - Nic McCaffrey/Viridans Images

Short Wallaby-grass

Rytidosperma carphoides


Perennial. Grows in heavy soils. Can become common at sites where the grass is cut by grazing or mowing. Most wallaby grass species are rapid colonisers of disturbed ground, particularly dry, poor soils. They can survive heavy grazing and drought. 


Details Description
Type
Graminoid
Group
Grass
Former Scientific Name
Austrodanthonia carphoides
Identifying Characteristics

Smaller tussock, growing to 50 cm tall but often much less. Leaves very thin 1 mm wide and rolled inwards, up to 20 cm long. The leaf blade surface is ribbed and covered with fine hairs. Flowers October-December.

Distinctive Features

Compact fluffy seed heads.

Life Form Group
Graminoid
Life Form Codes
Tiny Tufted Graminoid (TTG)
EVC types
EVC 132_62: Lighter-soils Plains Grassland
Native Status
Native to Australia
Taxonomy
Phylum
Charophyta
Class
Equisetopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Rytidosperma
Species
carphoides