Aristida
Three-awned Spear Grasses or Wire grasses
Three-awned Spear Grasses or Wire grasses
58 species in Aust. (52 endemic, 6 native); all states and territoriesSpikelet with 1 floret on filiform pedicels or nearly sessile in a terminal panicle, disarticulating above the glumes. Glumes awnless. Lemma rolled around the floret, with a trifid awn. Palea small, thin. Fruit enclosed in the lemma.