Plinthanthesis rodwayi (C.E.Hubb.) S.T.Blake APNI* 
Description: Caespitose perennial to 0.5 m high.
Leaves with ligule a ciliate rim with hairs c. 0.25 mm long; blade linear, rolled, upper surface and margins scabrous, glabrous.
Inflorescence open, 6–8 cm long, 2–5 cm wide; rachis slender, usually flexuous, scabrous. Spikelets 5–6 mm long, gaping to 7 mm wide at maturity, bisexual florets 2, sometimes with 1 reduced floret above; pedicels slender, usually flexuous, 2–10 mm long, scabrous. Glumes 4–5 mm long, 3-nerved, keel minutely scabrous, glabrous. Lemmas 3–3.5 mm long, 8-nerved, awnless or with an awn in the sinus, lower half pilose with hairs < 0.25 mm long, margins purplish brown, 2-lobed; lobes < 1 mm long, subulate; awn, when present, slender, < 0.5 mm long. Palea subequal to lemma, 2-keeled, keel scabrous, lower half pilose with hairs <0.25 mm long.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Uncommon; grows in montane woodland.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Critically Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & K. L. McClay
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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