Setaria distans

Setaria distans (syn. Paspalidium distans) is a species of grass in the Poaceae, subfamily Panicoideae, native to New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Bonin Islands and most of Australia. It was originally described by Carl Bernhard von Trinius in 1829 and has subsequently been treated under the segregate genus Paspalidium. Plants are tufted perennials with narrow flat to involute leaf blades, producing slender racemose inflorescences bearing distichously arranged spikelets along one side of the rachis, each spikelet subtended by a single bristle in the manner characteristic of Setaria sensu lato. The species occupies open grasslands and disturbed ground across its range in Australasia and the southwestern Pacific.