Echinopogon phleoides C.E.Hubb. APNI* 
Description: Perennial to 0.7 m high, arising from a slender rhizome.
Leaves with sheath lightly striate, scaberulous or smooth, glabrous or pubescent below; ligule truncate, c. 3 mm long; blade 2–3 mm wide, loosely hispidulous, apex subobtuse.
Panicle dense, cylindrical, oblong in outline, erect, 15–35 mm long, 6–8 mm wide. Spikelets linear-oblong, at length horizontally spreading, 3.5–4 mm long. Glumes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, minutely pubescent, keel ciliolate, hairs rigid, c. 0.6 mm long. Lemma shorter than glumes, linear-lanceolate in outline, 5–7-nerved, 2.8–3 mm long, acute, apex entire or minutely 2-toothed, apiculate or mucronate, mucro rigid, scaberulous, 0.2–1.5 mm long; callus shortly bearded. Palea almost equal to lemma, keel smooth or minutely ciliolate towards apex.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on limestone; restricted to an area north-west of Guyra.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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