Common name: Brown's Lovegrass
Eragrostis brownii (Kunth) Nees APNI* 
Description: Tufted perennial to c. 0.6 m high.
Leaves with orifice sometimes with rigid hairs to 1.5 mm long; ligule a ciliate rim with hairs to 0.25 mm long; blade rolled, to 1 mm wide, smooth, glabrous.
Inflorescence contracted or sometimes open, interrupted, 4–17 cm long, 1–3 cm wide; rachis smooth or scabrous, glabrous; branches scabrous; pedicels 0–1.5 mm long, scabrous. Spikelets 3–14 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, subsessile, usually densely overlapping; rachilla persistent with lemmas deciduous, paleas persistent. Glumes 1–2 mm long, acute, smooth, glabrous; keel often scabrous. Palea subequal to lemma, 2-keeled, glabrous; keels scabrous.
Flowering: summer or in response to rain.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in woodland and native pasture.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. W.A. S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & K. L. McClay
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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