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''Rytidosperma setaceum'', known by various common names including small-flowered wallaby-grass, mulga- or bristly wallaby-grass, is a species of grass native to Australia. Originally described by Robert Brown under the name ''Danthonia setacea'', it was transferred into '' Austrodanthonia'' by
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Rytidosperma ''Rytidosperma'' is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the gr ...
'' in 2011. From the earlier name, ''setacea'' means bristle or stiff hair. It is a species with short bristles and the smallest delicate in appearance of the wallaby grasses., page 19. It grows as a perennial clump, with flowering stems from 15 to 60 cm high. It flowers from September to December.


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15521628 setaceum Bunchgrasses of Australasia Poales of Australia Angiosperms of Western Australia Flora of the Australian Capital Territory Flora of South Australia Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of Tasmania Flora of New South Wales