Cynodon radiatus Roth

Perennial, stoloniferous, widely spreading, without rhizomes. Culms slender, 20–50(–80) cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous or pilose at mouth; leaf blades broadly linear, 2.5–10(–15) cm, 3–6 mm wide, glaucous, glabrous, apex acute; ligule ca. 3 mm, membranous, ciliolate on upper edge. Racemes digitate, usually 4–8, 5–10 cm, flexuous, slightly drooping; spikelets overlapping by 1/3–1/2 their length. Spikelets 1.8–2.5 mm; rachilla extension ca. 1 mm, without reduced floret at apex; glumes lanceolate, about half as long as floret, 1-veined, keel scabrous, thickened; lower glume ca. 1 mm; upper glume 1–1.4 mm; lemma as long as spikelet, pilose along keel and lateral veins, hairs sometimes clavate, apex subacute; palea glabrous, keels smooth or rarely scaberulous. Anthers 0.5–0.7 mm. Caryopsis trigonous, laterally compressed. Fl. and fr. Jul–Nov. 2n = 36.

Most frequently found in woodlands of Eucalyptus, Callitris or Melaleuca, on disturbed sites, often in or near creeks,sometimes at rainforest margins, in a variety of soil types from sand to darkbrown loam.