Rytidosperma indutum (Vickery) Connor & Edgar APNI* 
Description: Robust, caespitose perennial to 1.2 m high.
Culms smooth somewhat compressible, mostly 4-noded. Sheaths glabrous; ligule of short dense cilia; blade glabrous, flat to loosely inrolled, narrowing into a fine point, firm, to 30 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide.
Inflorescence much exserted, loosely spreading or more or less linear-lanceolate when dry, 9–18 cm long, with many spikelets. Spikelets mostly 3-flowered, the florets distinctly shorter than the glumes. Glumes usually tinged with purple and green, with distinct membranous margins, 5–7-nerved, 14–18 mm long. Lemmas 4.5–5.5 mm long, distinctly nerved; hairy on back; lateral lobes narrow, diminishing evenly into the 1–3 mm long setae; central awn much longer, brown and twisted in the lower part; palea very narrowly lanceolate, hirsute.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on steep or rocky hillsides in open eucalypt forest.
NSW subdivisions: CT, NT, NWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic.
Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. Grasses of New South Wales, Fourth Edition (2008).
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