Family | Poaceae |
Description | Clump forming perennial warm season grass to about 1m high in flower. |
Flowering time | Summer-Autumn |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | A range of Grassland, Woodland and Dry Sclerophyll Forest Communities. |
Soil types | Wide range of soil textures from sands to clays, most commonly on low-nutrient sites. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Important understory component in Grassy Woodland Communities. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Similar in general appearance to kangaroo grass although the seed heads are more striking and interesting up close. Inflorescences on some forms are tall and arch over elegantly, turning a nice orange hue in Autumn. Also very long lived. Foliage has a pleasant lemony-resinous scent. |
-economic/functional values | Very tolerant of low nutrient and dry sites such as eroded areas, quarries and mines with rocky, skeletal substrates without topsoil. Has reasonable fodder value and as long as grazing pressure is not too high can survive for long periods of drought. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | extremely high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average to high |
-shade | average to high |
-soil salinity | not known |
-salt spray | average to high |
-pH | acid-neutral |
-minimum temperature | -10 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
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-viability period | average |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known but seed germinates readily in warm conditions, and should not be buried deeply. |
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