Description: Native, yearlong-green, perennial, erect, few-stemmed grass to 110 cm tall. Flowerheads are slender, contracted to somewhat open panicles (5-20 cm long). Flowers from spring to autumn. Found on low fertility, shallow, sandy or rocky soils in dry eucalypt forests and in disturbed areas, especially along roadsides. Native biodiversity. Of little importance to livestock as it is rare in pastures. An unproductive and low quality feed, it shows little response to fertiliser. To aid persistence, only lightly graze and spell after good rainfall in spring to allow seeding. Date: 9 April 2013, 10:40. Source: Rytidosperma tenuiusOrange plant1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Description: Lemmas are about 3.5 mm long (excluding lobes), 2-lobed and 1-awned, with rows of hairs over the back and the lower portion of the awn brown and once or twice twisted. Paleas are narrow. Date: 11 August 2013, 12:04. Source: Rytidosperma tenuius52 floret3. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.