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Rytidosperma pilosum
Also called Velvet Wallaby Grass
Rytidosperma pilosum is a species of true grass in the subfamily Danthonioideae. It is indigenous to Australia and naturalised in New Zealand and Hawaii. It was described as Danthonia pilosa in 1850 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown.
R. pilosum was identified as naturalized on Humu‘ula, Maui Island in Hawaii for the first time in 2025. It had been present there since 1932 but had been confused with other Rytidosperma species. It may have arrived within 12 accessions of Rytidosperma imported by the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station (HAES) from 1913–1937, or in seeds imported accidentally with hay.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rytidosperma pilosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
