Eragrostis elongata

3 Clustered Lovegrass at Denman Prospect, ACT

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Identification history

	Eragrostis elongata	9 Feb 2022	MichaelMulvaney
	Eragrostis elongatus	9 Feb 2022	rainer

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Significant sighting

MichaelMulvaney noted:

9 Feb 2022

Clustered Lovegrass is widespread and common across Australia but does not occur often in higher altitude areas. This is one of just a few recorded locations of the grass in the ACT region

User's notes

This is a NSW CENTRAL- and South-western Slopes species that I’ve recorded frequently out west, but never in the Australian Capital Territory. I have since seen it in the other section of Bluetts Block-Piney Ridge

5 comments

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

9 Feb 2022

Thanks Rainer there are a few more western species native to teh Act such as Sporobolus creber and Aristida behriana - so are you assuming that this is a locally native species

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

9 Feb 2022

Actually Rainer this is the fourth CNM, Canberra area record of this grass

rainer wrote:

9 Feb 2022

I haven't seen it here before, which does of course not mean that it hasn't been recorded by others. However, I noticed it wasn't in the dropdown list. I've seen Aristida behriana and Sporobolus creber several times in our region. In fact, A. behriana is also found on the Monaro. S. creber is at Bluetts-Piney Ridge too.

rainer wrote:

9 Feb 2022

I've just noticed that this erroneously located itself at lawson (my address) rather than at the new Bluetts Block Deferred area site that Aaron made the other day. I clicked on that site on the map when I downloaded the record. Could you please shift it to its correct site. Much appreciated.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

9 Feb 2022

No worries sausage fingers

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