Linda and Roger's Bunhybee Grasslands

Plant Species – Grasses

This is a page within Roger and Linda's Bunhybee Grasslands Web-Site.
Bunhybee Grasslands is a 49 hectare / 120 acre conservation property 35km south of Braidwood, in southern N.S.W.
You can follow through the internal links, or you may find it easier to use the Site-Map.

Lists of the plant species found on the property have been broken into:

1. (Small) Flowering Plants
2. Trees and Shrubs
3. Grasses (this page)

(There is also a somewhat dated master-page for the Species Lists).

We've defined 'grass' broadly, pragmatically, and partly wrongly, by including:

• sedges and rushes (which we think is fair enough)
• clovers and plantains (which we appreciate isn't really right, but we're trying to reduce the length of the Flowering Plants page, because it's so big it's getting unwieldy!)

Within this page, for Grasses, there are two tables:

1. Native Species (about 50 species, with 8 particularly important genus in bold-face type)
2. Introduced Species (about a dozen species)

Here are our photos of grasses on the property.

Here are the References we've used in building up this information.

Legend:

Bold Font: Species that are threatened (Vulnerable or Endangered under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999)

Asterisk (*) and Bold Font: Species that are noxious or environmental weeds.

Cross-Hatch (#): Species added by us to the list originally provided by NCT

FC = Frequency Code / Abundance: Rp/c = rare patches or clumps < 3 patches with < 10 plants per patch, R = Rare at site (< 3 plants), O = Occasional (<5% cover), Ip/c = intermittent patches or clumps, I = intermittent/subdominant, F = frequent/dominant

Name-Links are to whatever looks useful, plus The Royal Botanic Gardens' GrassBase (Kew).

Photo-Links are to: our own photos (Us), the Australian Plant Image Index (APII), the Bega Valley Plant Index (Bega), RBG Sydney (Plantnet), Stipa/NGA (Stipa), NSW Dept of Primary Industry (DPINSW), Alessi Native Seeds (Alessi), and the International Environmental Weed Foundation (IEWF).

Table 1: Native Species

Scientific Name	Image	Common Name	Photo Links	FC
Agrostis meulleriana – but poss. really Lachnagrostis filiformis Kew	–		APII APII Plantnet
# Amphibromus poss. neesii or nervosus		?A Wallaby-Grass	Us Us Us Us PlantNet PlantNet
Aristida ramosa Kew		Purple Wire-grass	Us Us Us APII Plantnet	O/p
Austrodanthonia Spp. (or just Danthonia) – species are not distinguishable in the field (Not in Kew?)		Wallaby Grasses	Us Us Stipa Plantnet	O
# Austrodanthonia caespitosa (ANPS-WW)		Ringed Wallaby Grass	Specimen Specimen Heads PlantNet
Austrodanthonia carphoides (Not in Kew?)		Short Wallaby Grass	Specimen Specimen Head Us Us Plantnet	R/p
# Austrodanthonia eriantha (ANPS-WW)			Specimen Specimen Heads PlantNet
Austrodanthonia laevis (Not in Kew?)			APII Bega Plantnet
# Austrodanthonia monticola (ANPS-WW)			Specimen Specimen Heads PlantNet
Austrostipa densiflora Kew (as Stipa)		Brushtail Speargrass	Plantnet	R
Austrostipa scabra ssp. falcata (Not in Kew)		Cork-screw grass	Plantnet	I
# Austrostipa setacea (ANPS-WW)		Corkscrew Grass	Specimen Specimen Heads Us Us Us Us RGBSyd PlantNet
Bothriochloa macra Kew		Red-grass or Red-leg grass	Us Bega Bega Bega Bega Stipa DPINSW PlantNet	O
Carex breviculmis (Not in Kew)		Short-stemmed sedge	APII Bega Bega Plantnet	O
# Carex gaudichaudiana (FOG)			Us Us Us-? Plantnet
# Carex inversa (ANPS-WW)			PlantNet
Carex tereticaulis (Not in Kew)			Plantnet
Chloris truncata Kew		Windmill Grass	Us Us Bega Bega Bega Stipa DPINSW Plantnet
# Cyperus sanguinolentus		A papyrus? Bloody Sedge?	Us Us Us Us Us Herbison-Evans Kuringgai PlantNet
# Deyeuxia quadriseta		–	Us Us Plantnet
Dichelachne crinita Kew		A plume-grass	Us Plantnet	O
# Dichelachne micrantha (ANPS-WW)	?	Shorthair Plumegrass	?Us ?Us ?Us Specimen Specimen Head PlantNet
Dichelachne rara Kew		A plume grass	Plantnet	R
# Eleocharis gracilis		Slender Spike-sedge	Us Us Us Us PlantNet Yarra Ranges Shire
Elymus spp. (scaber?) (Kew: scabridulus? scabrifolius? scabriglumis? scabrus?)		Common Wheat-grass	Us Us Us Us Stipa DPINSW Plantnet (scaber)	O
Enneapogon nigricans Kew		Nineawn Grass	Us Us Plantnet	R
Eragrostis parviflora (orig. listed as parvifolia) Kew		Weeping Lovegrass	Us Plantnet	R
Eragrostis trachycarpa			PlantNet
Hemarthria uncinata Kew		Mat-grass	Us Us Us Us Us Bega Bega Plantnet	O/p
Joycea pallida Not in Kew		Red-anthered Wallaby Grass	Us Us Us Us Us Us Bega Bega Bega APII APII APII APII APII APII Plantnet	R/p
Juncus spp. ­ most easily distinguished as small/medium/large and wet/dry Not in Kew		A rush	Plantnet	R
Juncus filicaulis 15–45 cm, in "dryish situations" Not in Kew		Pinrush	Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Plantnet	R
Juncus fockei 8–45 cm, in "damp situations" – or in water? Not in Kew		–	Us Us Us Us-? (foreground, in water) Us-? Us-? Plantnet
Juncus planifolius 13–60 cm, in "moist, sandy situations" Not in Kew		–	Us Us Us Plantnet
# Juncus poss. usitatus 40–110 cm long "Very common on stream banks and other moist places"		–	Us Us Us Plantnet
Lachnagrostis filiformis Not in Kew		Blowaway Grass	Us Us Us Us Us Plantnet
Lomandra filiformis Not in Kew		Wattle Mat-rush	Us Us Bega Bega Bega Bega Plantnet	O
# Lomandra filiformis ?ssp. coriacea			Us Us PlantNet
Lomandra longifolia Not in Kew		Spiny Mat-rush	Us Bega Bega Bega Bega Plantnet	R
Lomandra multiflora Not in Kew		Many-flowered Mat-rush	Us Us Us Us Plantnet	R
# Luzula densiflora Not in Kew		A woodrush	Us Us Us Plantnet
Luzula flaccida Not in Kew		A woodrush	Us Us Us Bega Plantnet	O
Microlaena stipoides Not in Kew		Weeping-grass	Us Us Us Bega Bega Bega APII Stipa DPINSW Alessi Plantnet	O
Panicum effusum Kew		Hairy Panic	Us Us Us Bega Bega Bega APII Plantnet	O
# Pentapogon quadrifidus		Fiveawn Speargrass	Us Us Us Us Specimen Plantnet
Plantago gaudichaudii		Narrow Plantain	Us Us Us Plantnet	O
# Plantago hispida (ANPS-WW, FOG'11)			Us PlantNet
Plantago varia		Variable Plantain	Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Plantnet	O
Poa sp. Kew		A tussock grass	Us Plantnet	R
# Poa ?clivicola (ANPS-WW)		Fine-leaved Snow-grass	Specimen Specimen Head PlantNet
Poa labillardieri Big, Bold tussocks, in waterlines Kew		River Tussock	Specimen Specimen Heads Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Cohen? Bega Bega Bega Bega Bega Plantnet-1 or Plantnet-2	O
Poa meionectes Very small tussocks Kew			Specimen Specimen Heads Us Us Us Us Bega Bega Bega Bega Plantnet	O
Poa sieberiana Medium-sized, dry and moist areas Kew	?	Poa Tussock	?Us Us (poss. sub-species with dark inflorescences) APII APII Plantnet	R
Schoenus apogon (Not in Kew)		Common Bog-sedge	Us Us Us Us Us Bega Bega APII APII Plantnet	O
Sorghum leiocladum aka Sarga leiocladum		Native Sorghum	Us Us Us Us Us Us Bega Bega Bega Bega PlantNet
# Sporobolus creber		Rats Tail Grass	Us Us Bega Bega Bega
Themeda australis (Not in Kew)		Kangaroo-grass	Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Cohen? APII Stipa DPINSW Plantnet	O
# Tripogon loliiformis		Five Minute grass	Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us PlantNet

Table 2: Introduced Species

Scientific Name	Image	Common Name	Photo Links	FC
Aira sp. Kew		Hair Grass	Us Us Us Us Bega Bega Plantnet	O
Anthoxanthum odoratum Kew		Sweet Vernal-grass	Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Bega Bega Bega Plantnet	R/p
Briza minor Kew		Shivery-grass	Us Us Us Us IEWF Bega Bega Plantnet	R
Bromus hordaceus / hordeaceus Kew		Soft Brome-grass	Us Plantnet	R
Holcus lanatus Kew		Yorkshire Fog, Fog Grass	Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Bega Bega Bega Bega PlantNet	R
* Nassella trichotoma Kew		* Serrated Tussock	Us Us Us Us Us Us Us IEWF Bega Bega Bega Bega Bega Bega WeedsAust Plantnet See also the Weed Control Page	O/p
Paspalum dilatatum Kew		Paspalum	Us Us IEWF Bega Bega Bega Plantnet	R
# Phalaris aquatica Kew		Phalaris	Us Us Us Us Bega Bega Bega Bega Bega Plantnet
Plantago coronopus		Buck’s-horn Plantain	Us Us Us Plantnet	O
Plantago lanceolata		Ribwort or Ribbed Plantain	Us Plantnet	O
# Trifolium arvense		Haresfoot Clover	Us Us PlantNet Bega Bega
Trifolium spp.		Clovers and trefoils	Us Us Plantnet	R
Vulpia sp. Kew		A rat’s-tail fescue	Us Us Bega Plantnet	O

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Contact: Linda or Roger

Created: 31 December 2008; Last Amended: 18 April 2013