''Eulalia aurea'' is a grass (in the

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

family). It was first described as ''Andropogon aureum'' in 1804 by

Bory de Saint-Vincent Jean-Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent was a French naturalist, officer and politician. He was born on 6 July 1778 in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) and died on 22 December 1846 in Paris. Biologist and geographer, he was particularly int ...

Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M. (1804), Voyage dans les quatre Principales îles des mers d'Afrique 1: 367, t. 21 but was transferred to the genus, '' Eulalia'', in 1830 by

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.Kunth, K.S. (1830), Revision des graminees Part 22: 359 The

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people of the southern

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call it "Water grass" and .

Distribution

It is found in southern

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, and

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. Within Australia, it is found in all mainland states and territories.

Gallery

Eulalia aurea plant.jpg , habit Eulalia aurea plant7 NWS - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man.jpg, habit Eulalia aurea flowerhead6 NT - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man.jpg, flower head

References

External links

''Eulalia aurea'' occurrence data
from

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