Ectrosia leporina R.Br.

Annuals or perennials. Flowering culms 10–90 cm high. Leaves: basal sheaths glabrous or rarely hispid; blade 1–4 mm wide, glabrous or pilose or rarely adaxially hirsute. Inflorescences: rachis glabrous or pilose; branches 0.5–4 cm long, touching to far apart, spreading. Spikelets usually spreading, occasionally erect or appressed, overlapping, linear or oblong or lanceolate, with l:w usually greater than 3, 1.5–6.7 mm long, (0.4–) 0.7–1 mm wide, 4–9-flowered, with 1–3 (–4) loosely overlapping bisexual florets. Glumes: lower glume 1–2 mm long; upper glume 1.5–2.5 mm long. Basal lemma linear or lanceolate or oblong, straight on the back, 1.5–3 mm long, notched or minutely bilobed, aristulate or awned, similar in firmness to the glumes, membranous, 3-nerved, smooth, glabrous; midnerve scaberulous. Upper bisexual florets usually similar to basal floret; lemmas sometimes longer and narrower upwards, awns sometimes longer. Palea 3/4–4/5 length of lemma body; body smooth or granular, glabrous; keels ciliolate. Distal incomplete florets with narrower lemmas, with longer awns relative to lemma body.

Prefers sandy soils in moist areas such as depressions and creek lines, oftenin open forests of Eucalyptus or Melaleuca species.