Entolasia marginata

Entolasia marginata, commonly known as bordered panic or margined panic grass, is a tufted perennial grass in the family Poaceae native to eastern Australia, where it is widespread in open eucalypt forest, woodland, and heathy understorey on a range of soils. It forms loose, often weakly rhizomatous clumps of slender, erect to ascending culms 30-90 cm tall. The flat, narrowly lanceolate leaf blades are 3-15 cm long and conspicuously bordered by thickened, cartilaginous, whitish margins from which the common and species names derive. Inflorescences are slender, spike-like contracted panicles 5-15 cm long bearing few-flowered, plump, pale green to straw-coloured spikelets borne singly along the branches. The species is shade-tolerant, persists through low-intensity fire, and is a common ground-layer grass in coastal sclerophyll forests of New South Wales and Queensland.