Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Eragrostis (Poaceae) 4b:325  
Tasmania has four introduced species of Eragrostis. These are large erect annuals with flat (or sometimes twisted) leaves, with a row of hairs for a ligule. The other distinctive features of this genus include the open panicles of awnless, multiple-flowered distinctly flattened spikelets. They grow in lowland, disturbed areas.

Eragrostis cilianensis is stink grass. The inflorescences are a very distinctive, dark grey, leaden colour.

 

 
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