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Eriachne helmsii Hartley
Buck Wanderrie Grass

Reference
J.Linn.Soc.,Bot. 52:346 (1942)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Loosely caespitose perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.4-1 m high, with bulbous woolly base. Fl. purple, Dec or Jan to May or Sep to Oct. Red or calcareous sand, clay. Dunes, sandplains, creeklines, rocky hills, quartzite oucrops.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 August 1999

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Pilbara, Tanami, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Cape Range, Carnegie, Central, Chichester, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Hamersley, Lateritic Plain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, Maralinga, Roebourne, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Trainor, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Carnarvon, Cue, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Halls Creek, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Mount Magnet, Murchison, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Sandstone, Upper Gascoyne, Wiluna, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.