Aristida ramosa
Purple Wire Grass at Hall, ACT
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| Aristida ramosa | Tapirlord | 12 Mar 2024 | |
| Lepidosperma laterale | CarbonAI | 11 Mar 2024 | |
| Unverified | strigo | 11 Mar 2024 |
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Don't really know which sedge (?) this is. It has an interesting blue tinge on the flower/seed bits.
3 comments
13 Mar 2024
Thanks Ciaran - could you please get back to this? I have added two more photos - the first with a wire grass on the right. For me, neither the awns nor the seeds are those of purple wire grass. I am quite sure now that it is a grass as it is fully round and has "knees" closer to the ground - but I have no clue still what grass it is.
24 Mar 2024
I think what may have happened is that the water has become trapped in the reproductive structures and they have swollen. I have seen this before in Rytidosperma. To me this still looks like Aristida
24 Mar 2024
I think you are right. What I have since observed is that the plant(s) are likely affected by a fungal infection. The "seed" appears large - but the content is "dusty" black - no starch left. It may well be that the infection occurred much before the seed spike grew large - and that may have prevented the formation of the awns and other characteristics. Something for the plant pathologists...
Location information
- Coordinates 149.066894-35.170164
- Altitude 637.6m
- Places Hall, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 13 Mar 2024 01:30 PM Recorded on
- strigo Recorded by
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
Collections
- Hall Village Surrounds strigo Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Aristida ramosa Grasses Plants
Species information
- Aristida ramosa Scientific name
- Purple Wire Grass Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 843m Recorded at altitude
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