- Reference
- Fl.Austral. 7:644 (1878)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Slender, caespitose annual or perennial, grass-like or herb, (0.09-)0.25-0.6(-0.85) m high. Clay, loam, red sand, laterite, silt. Floodplains, along watercourses, depressions, lateritic breakaways.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor, Pilbara, Victoria Bonaparte, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Ashburton, Augustus, Cape Range, Carnegie, Central, Chichester, Eastern Murchison, Fitzroy Trough, Fortescue, Hamersley, Keep, Lateritic Plain, Mann-Musgrave Block, Nullarbor Plain, Roebourne, Rudall, Shield, Tallering, Trainor, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Carnarvon, Cue, Derby-West Kimberley, Dundas, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Karratha, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Mount Magnet, Murchison, Ngaanyatjarraku, Upper Gascoyne, Wiluna, Wyndham-East Kimberley, Yalgoo.