''Enneapogon gracilis'', or slender nineawn, is a species of grass found in Eastern Australia. It is also called slender bottlewashers.

Distribution

Slender nineawn is common in inland

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

and

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, and is also found in

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

and possibly the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

. It is most abundant in an inland belt from the western parts of the

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughl ...

westwards to central New South Wales; in Queensland, its extent is somewhat narrower, for the most part sticking within of the east coast, but its presence does extend as far as north as the

Shire of Mareeba The Shire of Mareeba is a Local government in Australia, local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, Queensland, Mare ...

; in the state of Victoria, there are scattered records along the border with New South Wales, especially in and around

Snowy River National Park The Snowy River National Park is a national park located in the Alpine and East Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia. The national park is situated approximately northeast of Melbourne and southwest of Canberra, south of the Black-Allan ...

. There are also isolated reports of slender nineawn from the Bass Coast, from the area of the Gregory River, and from the mid-northern inland Northern Territory.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15512046 Poales of Australia gracilis