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Eragrostis leptocarpa Benth.
Drooping Lovegrass

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.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 August 1999

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.