Dichelachne crinita

Dichelachne crinita, commonly known as longhair plumegrass, is a perennial tufted grass in the family Poaceae native to Australia and New Zealand. Plants form dense, erect tussocks 30-120 cm tall, with smooth, glabrous, often glaucous culms arising from a fibrous root system. Leaf blades are flat to inrolled, 10-25 cm long and 1-4 mm wide, scabrous along the margins, with a membranous ligule 1-3 mm long. The inflorescence is a dense, narrow, cylindrical to slightly lobed spike-like panicle 8-25 cm long, characteristically silky-fluffy in appearance because of the long, twisted, fine awns of the lemmas that project well beyond the spikelets. Spikelets are single-flowered, 4-6 mm long excluding the awn, with two narrow membranous glumes; the lemma bears a fine, geniculate awn 1.5-2.5 cm long that gives the inflorescence its plume-like quality. It grows in open forest, grassland, and disturbed sites at low to moderate elevations.