Stoloniferous perennial, culms ascending, to c. 15 cm high, not much exceeding leaves. Leaves almost or quite glabrous except about the ligule; blade channelled, to 6 cm long and 1 mm wide when flattened, minutely scabrous near apex only; ligule to c. 0.3 mm long, with longer lateral hair-tufts to c. 1.5 mm. Inflorescence pale green, usually with 2 spikes, not widely spreading, 1–2 cm long. Spikelets appressed to axis, closely overlapping, 2–2.5 mm long; glumes narrow, acute, c. 0.7–1 mm long; lemma strongly compressed, obliquely ovate, acute, weakly ciliate along the keel; palea subequal to lemma. Flowers Dec. (1 record).
MuF, GipP, Gold. Also-NSW. Native to South Africa. Occasionally grown as a fine lawn (for bowling greens etc.), recorded as naturalised in Victoria only from Mt Martha on the Mornington Peninsula (1990) where occurring in a disturbed, exotic-dominated grassy woodland. .
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
