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Rytidosperma australe, known as southern sheepgrass or snowpatch grass, is a small rhizomatous perennial grass from alpine and subalpine areas of southeastern Australia and New Zealand. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, so care is largely about matching its cool, moist mountain habitat.
Rytidosperma australe, also known as Southern sheepgrass and snowpatch grass is a species of true grass in the subfamily Danthonioideae. It was described as Triodia australis in 1889 by Scottish-New Zealand botanist Donald Petrie. It was previously believed to be endemic to New Zealand, but was identified in Australia for the first time in 1963 by Russian-New Zealand botanist Victor Zotov.
R. australe is indigenous to New Zealand and Australia. The undated holotype (WELT 40330!) was collected in Mount Ida Range, Maniatoto by Donald Petrie.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rytidosperma australe by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
