Eulalia trispicata (Schult.) Henrard

Perennial. Culms 50–130 cm high, densely tufted, unbranched, glabrous; base not distinctly bulbous, glabrous, cataphylls absent; nodes glabrous. Leaves: ligule a fringe of hairs on a short membrane, c. 0.5–1 mm long (hairs and membrane) as well as long hairs up to 3.5 mm long; blade 4–63 cm long, 1–5 mm wide. Inflorescences subdigitate or digitate racemes; racemes 5–8 per inflorescence, rarely fewer (BKS, ined., reported 2 racemes but n.v. by RAK), with 22–43 spikelet pairs, 6–13 cm long with pale tawny-coloured or white hairs; raceme internodes 1.6–2 mm long, slightly longer than pedicels or similar in length, densely villous on margins. Spikelets narrowly elliptic, linear or lanceolate, 2.4–3.6 mm long, c. 0.8 mm wide; callus c. 0.4 mm long; lower glume shape and size as per spikelet, upper ⅓ tapering into acute apex but very narrowly truncate at the very tip, flattened between keels, pale brown at apex becoming reddish brown at base, ciliate on keels; upper glume lanceolate or narrowly ovate, upper ⅓ tapering into acute apex but very narrowly truncate at the very tip, as long as lower, colours as per lower glume, slightly hairy towards apex or halfway along keel; lower lemma linear, 2–3 mm long, glabrous; upper lemma, c. 1.5 mm long (including lobes); awn 11–13 mm long.

Grows in open eucalypt or Melaleuca woodland, often in swampy or seasonally waterlogged situations, in sand, loam or clay.