nanette_hooker's Identifications

Widely distributed grass dominating paperbark forests on seasonally wet soil growing to about a meter high inflorescence above tussocks. Leaves 250 - 300 x4 mm, inflorescence 120 mm, Second photo shows the inflorescence accommodating a stick insect which I observed drinking the morning dew from its limbs and plant features. The third photo shows a hairy node with dew.. The florets are somewhat dry and some have 15 mm long awns. Fourth photo shows habitat with buffel or mission grass also present.

Mount Louisa.

I have seen this entity around Townsville many times. It is in between A. holathera and superpendens.

It has the terete / tightly revolute leaves of holathera and the inflorescence structure of superpendens. The awns are in between the totally straight holathera type and the strongly curved superpendens type.

I don't know if it a hybrid or an unrecognised separate species.