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Sighting 4257433

Eragrostis (genus)

A Lovegrass at Wamboin, NSW

Eragrostis (genus) at Wamboin, NSW - 30 Mar 2020 09:15 PM
Eragrostis (genus) at Wamboin, NSW - 30 Mar 2020 09:15 PM
Eragrostis (genus) at Wamboin, NSW - 30 Mar 2020 09:15 PM
Eragrostis (genus) at Wamboin, NSW - 30 Mar 2020 09:15 PM
Eragrostis (genus) at Wamboin, NSW - 30 Mar 2020 09:15 PM
Eragrostis (genus) at Wamboin, NSW - 30 Mar 2020 09:15 PM
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Identification history

Eragrostis (genus) 5 Jan 2025 MattM
Eragrostis leptostachya 16 Apr 2023 Grassman
Eragrostis cilianensis 9 May 2020 natureguy
Unverified 23 Apr 2020 natureguy

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8 comments

natureguy wrote:
   9 May 2020
I have suggested a grass species to draw this sighting to the attention of the moderators (previously "Unidentified Plant").
MichaelBedingfield wrote:
   9 May 2020
Hi Luke
It doesn't look like Eragrostis cilianensis. But I don't know what it is, so I left it in the hope that someone else might know.
Illilanga wrote:
   9 May 2020
Poa annua? Wild guess. Looking at NSW DPI Grasses of NSW Tablelands (p128).
MichaelBedingfield wrote:
   10 May 2020
Not Poa annua.
Grassman wrote:
   16 Apr 2023
This is a hard one, as it appears to be a very sick and spindly plant that looks like it has grown horizontal and then sent up vertical shoots. Also only 1 flowerhead has fully emerged. Although it looks like an annual, it could also be a very young perennial which is flowering due to stress. I'd suggest Eragrostis leptostachya. Main reasons for this ID, are the yellow glands below the spikelets, short scattered hairs at the sheath orifice and widely-angled (in the only flowerhead fully emerged) leaden-green spikelets. Spikelets appear the to align with the length (3-8 mm long) and no of florets (4-12) of E. leptostachya
natureguy wrote:
   16 Apr 2023
Thanks, I collected a specimen that was put into the herbarium so perhaps they will have a conclusive ID.
Grassman wrote:
   16 Apr 2023
Did it look similar to this specimen?
natureguy wrote:
   16 Apr 2023
It was this exact specimen (hence on the paper).

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Additional information

  • True In flower
  • Less than 10cm Plant height

Species information

  • Eragrostis (genus) Scientific name
  • A Lovegrass Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 635.7m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning

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