Summary[edit] Description: Flowerheads are spatheate panicles, containing clusters of 7 spikelets enclosed by a spathe. Clusters consist of a central fertile spikelet with a long thick (0.4-0.5 mm wide) black awn, surrounded by 6 male or barren, awnless spikelets; 4 are unstalked (6-12 mm long) and 2 stalked. The upper half of the glumes of the unstalked spikelets vary from hairless (mostly northern and western NSW) to densely covered with glandular hairs (most common in south east NSW). These very hairy samples were photographed at Mt Annan in Sydney. Date: 12 July 2011, 12:10. Source: Themeda triandra spikelets16. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Introduced, warm-season, erect, annual or short-lived perennial to 2 m tall. A native of Malesia, it grows in disturbed sites, especially roadsides - rare on the North Coast. Date: 4 July 2011, 10:28. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis habit7. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Introduced, warm-season, erect, annual or short-lived perennial to 2 m tall. A native of Malesia, it grows in disturbed sites, especially roadsides - rare on the North Coast. Date: 4 July 2011, 10:28. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis habit6. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Native, warm-season, perennial, tufted grass to 120 cm tall. Flowerheads are spatheate panicles. Flowers from spring to autumn. Most commonly found in ungrazed to lightly grazed areas that have not been ploughed, but have occasionally been burnt (e.g. roadsides, railways, native pastures, woodlands and forests). Native biodiversity. An important habitat for many native animals. Drought tolerant. Frost sensitive, but one of the earliest warm-season native perennials to break dormancy in spring. Palatability and feed quality are low when mature, although young growth is palatable to stock. Shows little response to fertiliser. Decreases under moderate to heavy grazing pressure. Use cattle, rotational grazing, low stocking rates, avoid frequent close grazing and/or rest in autumn for best persistence and production. Date: 11 December 2007, 05:33. Source: Themeda triandra plant11. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Spathes often with tubercle-based hairs along the margins of the lower third of the blade. Involucral spikelets usually with tubercle-based hairs on the upper two thirds of the back. Date: 4 July 2011, 09:52. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis spikelets1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Kangaroo Grass growing on the western side of Princess Highway, about 150m north of Mystery Bay turnoff, south of Narooma, NSW, 2546. More than 1000 plants on a moderate eastern facing graded roadside bank. Soil was a shallow, rocky, chocolate clay-loam subsoil. The site was dominated by Kangaroo Grass, but with some Austrostipa sp and Rytidosperma sp. Kangaroo Grass plants were erect, 95cm tall and pulled up very easily. Tubercle-based hairs on each glume were few in number. Date: 17 December 2010, 08:31. Source: Themeda triandra with tubercle-hairs16. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Flowerheads are spatheate and to 1.3 m long. Date: 4 July 2011, 11:00. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis flowerhead6. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Flowerheads are spatheate panicles, containing clusters of 7 spikelets enclosed by a spathe. Clusters consist of a central fertile spikelet with a long thick (0.4-0.5 mm wide) black awn, surrounded by 6 male or barren, awnless spikelets; 4 are unstalked (6-12 mm long) and 2 stalked. The upper half of the glumes of the unstalked spikelets vary from hairless (mostly northern and western NSW) to densely covered with glandular hairs (most common in south east NSW). Date: 7 February 2005, 10:18. Source: Themeda triandra spikelets9. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Spathes often with tubercle-based hairs along the margins of the lower third of the blade. Involucral spikelets usually with tubercle-based hairs on the upper two thirds of the back. Date: 4 July 2011, 11:00. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis spikelets7. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Spathes often with tubercle-based hairs along the margins of the lower third of the blade. Involucral spikelets usually with tubercle-based hairs on the upper two thirds of the back. Date: 4 July 2011, 10:59. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis spikelets5. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Flowerheads are spatheate and to 1.3 m long. Date: 4 July 2011, 09:54. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis flowerhead3. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Spathes often with tubercle-based hairs along the margins of the lower third of the blade. Involucral spikelets usually with tubercle-based hairs on the upper two thirds of the back. Date: 4 July 2011, 09:52. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis spikelets2. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Spathes often with tubercle-based hairs along the margins of the lower third of the blade. Involucral spikelets usually with tubercle-based hairs on the upper two thirds of the back. Date: 4 July 2011, 09:53. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis spikelets3. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: Flowerheads are spatheate and to 1.3 m long. Date: 4 July 2011, 09:51. Source: Themeda quadrivalvis flowerhead1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: When travelling down the south coast of NSW, I noticed Kangaroo Grass which had tubercle-based hairs in the flowerhead. This doesn't occur in any samples I've looked at on the north coast of NSW. This patch was growing on a graded roadside on George Bass Drive, 200m south of final roundabout exiting the southern end of Malua Bay. The site had a northwest facing gentle slope and was dominated by this tubercle-haired form of the grass, with little else present up to the edge of the forest (on the other side of the fence). Soil was a gravelly pale clay (probably subsoil). The grass was erect, 70cm tall and pulled up easily. Tubercle-based hairs were abundant. Date: 16 December 2010, 11:47. Source: Themeda triandra with tubercle-hairs3. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.