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Spikelets 1–2 mm long, dull green-grey, crowded in narrow spike-like panicles, awnless Sporobolus
Lowest branches of inflorescence not whorled (1 or 2 branches only)
Inflorescence loose, or narrow and interrupted and ± spike-like with the main axis visible between the branches in the upper two-thirds
Inflorescence narrow, and interrupted. Spikelets contacted along the primary axis
Inflorescence with stiff appressed branches, interrupted in the upper two-thirds, up to 40 cm long. Spikelets 1.3–1.8 mm long. Fruit c. two-thirds as long as the spikelet. Leaf blades up to 45 cm long and to 3 mm wide. Erect tufted perennial 40–140 cm long. Hornsby Plateau; Cumberland Plain. Grasslands and open forests on sandy or loamy soils. Slender Rat’s Tail Grass Sporobolus creber