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Scientific Name

Tetrarrhena acuminata

Family Name

POACEAE (GRAMINEAE)

Common Name

Swamp or Pointed Ricegrass

Status

Height

Flowers

An erect spike-like flowerhead, 1.5-2.5cm long, containing 5-7 spikelets.

Fruit

Grains

Form

Variable grass, slender and scrambling in shaded places, or with shorter stems and more crowded leaves in more open situations. Leaves hairless, up to 2.5cm long, and prominently ribbed on the upper surface.

Municipalities

Break O'Day; Brighton; Burnie; Central Highlands; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Huon Valley; Kentish; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Northern Midlands; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar

Communities

Habitat Notes

Damp, shaded places, or more open sites in areas of higher rainfall, on the Furneaux, Ben Lomond, Central Highlands, South West and West Coast, from sea level to 750m altitude.

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Oct

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Dec

Seed Collecting Months

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Sowing Months

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Nov

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Cutting Months

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Jul

Aug

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Oct

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Dec

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Cutting Notes