Rytidosperma

Location & distribution maps

Common name:         Wallaby Grass

• Several are known by the general common name wallaby grass

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• Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile + Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii + Easter Island) 

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• Species

  • • Rytidosperma acerosum (Western Australia)

    • Rytidosperma alpicola (New South Wales, Victoria)

    • Rytidosperma auriculatum - Lobed wallaby-grass (South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria)

    • Rytidosperma australe (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)

    • Rytidosperma biannulare

    • Rytidosperma bipartitum - Leafy wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma bonthainicum

    • Rytidosperma buchananii

    • Rytidosperma caespitosum - Common wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma carphoides - Short wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma clavatum

    • Rytidosperma clelandii

    • Rytidosperma corinum

    • Rytidosperma craigii

    • Rytidosperma dendeniwae

    • Rytidosperma diemenicum

    • Rytidosperma dimidiatum

    • Rytidosperma duttonianum - Brown-back wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma erianthum - Hill wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma exiguum

    • Rytidosperma fortunae-hibernae

    • Rytidosperma fulvum - Copper-awned wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma geniculatum - Kneed wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma gracile

    • Rytidosperma horrens

    • Rytidosperma indutum - Shiny wallaby-grass, yellow-anther wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma irianense

    • Rytidosperma javanicum

    • Rytidosperma laeve - Smooth wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma lechleri

    • Rytidosperma lepidopodum - Scaly-foot wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma longifolium

    • Rytidosperma maculatum

    • Rytidosperma mamberamense

    • Rytidosperma merum

    • Rytidosperma monticola - Small-flower wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma montis-wilhelmi

    • Rytidosperma nardifolium

    • Rytidosperma nigricans

    • Rytidosperma nitens

    • Rytidosperma nivicola

    • Rytidosperma nudiflorum

    • Rytidosperma nudum

    • Rytidosperma occidentale

    • Rytidosperma oreoboloides

    • Rytidosperma oreophilum

    • Rytidosperma pallidum - Red-anther wallaby-grass, silvertop wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma paschale

    • Rytidosperma pauciflorum

    • Rytidosperma penicillatum - Weeping wallaby-grass, slender wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma petrosum

    • Rytidosperma pictum

    • Rytidosperma pilosum - Velvet wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma popinensis

    • Rytidosperma pulchrum

    • Rytidosperma pumilum

    • Rytidosperma quirihuense

    • Rytidosperma racemosum - Slender wallaby-grass, striped wallaby-grass, clustered wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma remotum

    • Rytidosperma richardsonii

    • Rytidosperma semiannulare - Wetland wallaby-grass, Tasmanian wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma setaceum - Bristly wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma setifolium

    • Rytidosperma sorianoi

    • Rytidosperma telematicum

    • Rytidosperma tenue

    • Rytidosperma tenuius - Purplish wallaby-grass

    • Rytidosperma thomsonii

    • Rytidosperma unarede

    • Rytidosperma vestitum

    • Rytidosperma vickeryae

    • Rytidosperma violaceum

    • Rytidosperma virescens

    • Rytidosperma viride

  • Formerly included

    • Rytidosperma davyi - Merxmuellera davyi

    • Rytidosperma distichum - Tenaxia disticha

    • Rytidosperma grandiflorum - Merxmuellera grandiflora

    • Rytidosperma subulatum - Tenaxia subulata

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rytidosperma (2024)