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Description Native warm-season annual small tufted C4 grass; stems are ascending or erect and grow to 40 cm tall. Leaf blades are flat, 2–6 cm long and 2.5–6 mm wide, with tubercle-based hairs along the margins. Flowerheads are cylindrical raceme-like panicles 3-6 cm long. Spikelets are paired, 3.5–5 mm long, 1-flowered and covered in hooked spines; spikelet pairs fall together. Flowers in summer and autumn. Usually found in bare or disturbed areas on a range of soil types and in a wide range of communities; prefers lighter-textured soils and is rare on clays. It is common around stockyards and other heavily trampled areas and mostly occurs on the Plains and north of Dubbo on the Slopes. Native biodiversity. A coloniser of disturbed or bare areas after spring or summer rains. It can be an indicator of overgrazing as it increases in abundance under grazing systems that create or maintain low ground cover. Provides palatable reasonable-quality forage, but yields little bulk, quickly disintegrates after flowering and mostly grows when a bulk of other feed is available. Burrs cause vegetable fault in fleeces.
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Source Tragus australianus spikelet2 NWS
Author Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia
Camera location31° 07′ 41.43″ S, 150° 56′ 34.25″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Macleay Grass Man at https://flickr.com/photos/73840284@N04/26819106701. It was reviewed on 22 October 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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