Zoysia macrantha subsp. macrantha

Zoysia macrantha subsp. macrantha

Australian
Distribution
: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria.

Notes. Of value
as a sand and soil binder on foreshores and margins of salt-swamps.

 Z. macrantha was incorrectly referred to
Z. pungens Willd. (a later synonym of Z. matrella (L.) Merrill)
by Bentham and other authors until 1931.

All around the E coast
from near Melbourne to the Shoalwater Bay
area of Qld, N of Yeppoon. Occurs in eroded hollows of coastal rock platforms,
on beach sand dunes, sometimes with other grasses such as Cynodon dactylon,
and in mangroves and salt marshes.

AVH 2011

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith