Smooth Wallaby-grass - native (Rytidosperma laeve)

Native. Perennial. C3.

Family. Poaceae (Grass family).

Uncommon.

Alternative names: Danthonia laevis, Austrodanthonia laevis.

Identification:

• the flower cluster is a compact spray
• the glumes longer than the lemmas
• the lemmas are forked into two lobes with an awn rising bewteen the lobes
• the lemma has incomplete row of hairs on the back, so that the back of the lemma is smooth and shiny
• the leaves are narrow and rolled
• the ligules have a row of hairs to 1mm long.

Some of the middle row of hair-tufts are absent. As result the smooth and shining back of the lemma is exposed. The glumes often have purple markings.

laeve: smooth, referring to the smooth lemmas.

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