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Common Swamp Wallaby-grass

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Common Swamp Wallaby-grass photos
Scientific Name:Amphibromus nervosus

Common Swamp Wallaby-grass plant
Common Swamp Wallaby-grass plant
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria.

Plant Description:
A tufted perennial grass, growing to 1.2 m tall. It has smooth, hairless leaves with flat or inrolled blades, to 30 cm long and 1.5-3.5 mm wide.

Flower-heads are slender, erect panicles with 4-6 flowered, green, spikelets, 10-16 mm long (excluding awns). Floret lemma is 5-7.2 mm long with 2-4 minute apical teeth and a 12-22 mm long awn or bristle arising from the middle third of the lemma back. Late in the season, it is common to find the florets dropped and only the outer glumes of the spikelets remaining.

Habitat:
Occurs in freshwater swamps and drains, across most of Victoria.

Comments:
There are eight Swamp Wallaby-grass species in Victoria and all inhabit similar freshwater habitats. They are largely distinguished by the shape of their florets. The most other common species is Swamp Wallaby-grass (Amphibromus neesii) which has a floret awn attached in the upper third of the lemma back and a lemma that tapers abruptly towards its tip thereafter. Might be confused with Australian Sweet-grass (Glyceria australis) which grows in similar habitat but does not have toothed or awned lemmas.


Common Swamp Wallaby-gass photos
Young spikelets of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Young spikelets of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Photo: A J Brown
Mature spikelets of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Mature spikelets of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Photo: A J Brown

Base and leaves of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Base and leaves of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Photo: A J Brown

Mature spikelets of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Mature spikelets of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Photo: A J Brown

Young flower-head of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Young flower-head of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Photo: A J Brown

Old spikelets of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Old spikelets of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Photo: A J Brown

Spreading flower-head of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Spreading flower-head of Common Swamp Wallaby-grass
Photo: A J Brown
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