Neurachne

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

Mulga grass
Neurachne munroi
Scientific classification
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

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]
  • Neurachne alopecuroidea R.Br.
  • Neurachne lanigera S.T.Blake
  • Neurachne minor S.T.Blake
  • Neurachne munroi (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
  • Neurachne queenslandica S.T.Blake
  • Neurachne tenuifolia S.T.Blake
formerly included[5]

see Isachne Panicum Paraneurachne Sacciolepis Thyridolepis Zygochloa

  • Neurachne clementii - Paraneurachne muelleri
  • Neurachne meneritana - Isachne polygonoides
  • Neurachne mitchelliana - Thyridolepis mitchelliana
  • Neurachne montana - Panicum torridum
  • Neurachne muelleri - Paraneurachne muelleri
  • Neurachne multiculmis - Thyridolepis multiculmis
  • Neurachne paradoxa - Zygochloa paradoxa
  • Neurachne peekelii - Sacciolepis indica
  • Neurachne torrida - Panicum torridum
  • Neurachne xerophila - Thyridolepis xerophila

References
  1. Brown, Robert 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 196 in Latin
  2. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  3. Atlas of Living Australia
  4. J. H. Maiden (1889). The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania. Turner and Henderson, Sydney.
  5. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. The Plant List search for Neurachne


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