Scientific Name: Dactyloctenium australe

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  • Common Name:
    Sweet Smother Grass
  • Type:
    herb , grass
  • Family:
    POACEAE
  • Status:
    WEED This introduced plant has escaped into local bushland. Without natural predators to keep it in check, it is out-competing native species.
  • Species List:
    Grass book, Janet, Weed
Comments

Perennial tufted or mat-forming grass with stolons that root from the lower nodes. The leaf blades are flat and tapered 5-27cm x 2-5mm, with softly hairy surfaces, especially below.||The stems are 30-80cm tall and the inflorescence has 2-6 digitate, oblong spikes, 3-5cm long.||Spikelets are awned.||Native of coastal areas of southern and eastern Africa and introduced as a lawn grass for shady areas||

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