| Common Name: | Slender Tussock-grass |
| Synonym: | |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Size: | 5-20cm high |
| Description: | Slender bright green trailing perennial, trailing branches rooting at nodes. Flowering stems weakly erect. |
| Leaves: | Smooth, thin folded or inrolled leaves, to 20cm x 1.5mm, veins becoming raised as leaf dries. Sheath pale, occasionally red to purple. |
| Flowering: | Sparse pyramidal flowerhead, to 8cm x 6cm, 2-4-flowered spikelets; lower bracts 3-veined, lower floral bract with 5 distinct veins, shortly downy to hairless on lower part, web weak or absent; |
| Flower Colour: | Pale green |
| Flowering Time: | October to January |
| Growing Conditions: | Moist soils in shady forests and riparian scrubs along watercourses. Semi shade to dappled shade. |
| Garden Use: | An attractive bright grass useful as a groundcover in moist areas, especially on embankments. Flowerheads are beautiful with the sun behind them. |
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| Plant Communities: | 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 46 |
| Conservation Status: | Locally common within its preferred growing conditions |
| Aboriginal Use: | |
| Commercially available: | Indigenous nursery |
| Bird Attracting: | Seeds, habitat - nesting materials |
| Butterfly Attracting: | Food plant for caterpillars |
| Frog Habitat: | Yes |
| Photographer: | 1, 3, 4, Marilyn Gray ©; 2 Peter Kinchington © |