Biology:Neurachne

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Short description: Genus of Australian grasses

Mulga grass
Neurachne munroi plant.jpg
Neurachne munroi
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Neurachninae
Genus: Neurachne
R.Br.
Type species
Neurachne alopecuroidea
R.Br.

Neurachne, commonly called mulga grass, is a genus of Australia n plants in the grass family.[1][2][3]

The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia’ records that Neurachne Munroi is "a very rare grass, peculiar to the back country, and only found amongst Mulga scrubs (Acacia aneura and allied species)." Found in the Interior of South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales.[4]

Species[5][6]


formerly included[5]

see Isachne Panicum Paraneurachne Sacciolepis Thyridolepis Zygochloa


References

Wikidata ☰ Q930597 entry