Size: 5 to 20cm, spreading.
Habitat: Saltmarshes, primary dune scrub.
Form: Perennial grass with ascending branches and long creeping rhizomes, forming a spreading lightly prickly clump.
Foliage: Thin, rigid leaves 25-30 mm long, sometimes with short tips, alternate in 2 rows on opposite sides of stem.
Flowers: October to December. Dioecious; short terminal spike or raceme to 25mm long, spikelets green to straw coloured, flat, 2-4 on male plants, often more crowded together on female plants and 6-14 flowered.
Distichlis distichophylla is regionally significant
Sources:
Burbidge, N. Australian Grasses
Gray, M. & Knight J. Flora of Melbourne
Wills, T. et al Natural heritage assessment of sites within the City of Port Phillip
Distichlis distichophylla
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