Skip to main content

Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s flora taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not currently being reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or the census. Due to the rapidly approaching holiday season and associated agency and facility soft closures, along with the substantial work involved in data mapping, cleaning, and verification, the migration to the new collection management software is not expected to occur before 1 March 2026, when a further update will be provided. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

The notice period started at 9:45 am on Friday, 12 December 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 2 March 2026 +08:00.

Advanced Search

Eragrostis xerophila Domin
Knotty-butt Neverfail

Reference
J.Linn.Soc.,Bot. 41:281 (1912)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tufted rhizomatous, perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.15-0.5 m high. Clay, red loam or sandy or clayey loam. Floodplains, claypans, river beds, grassland plains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 28 August 1997

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami.
IBRA Subregions
Ashburton, Augustus, Cape Range, Carnegie, Chichester, Eastern Goldfield, Fitzroy Trough, Fortescue, Hamersley, Mann-Musgrave Block, Roebourne, Rudall, South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami Desert, Wooramel.
IMCRA Regions
Pilbara (nearshore), Pilbara (offshore).
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Halls Creek, Karratha, Meekatharra, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Upper Gascoyne, Wiluna.