Neurachne

{{Short description|Genus of Australian grasses}}

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|name = Mulga grass

|image = Neurachne munroi plant.jpg

|image_caption = Neurachne munroi

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|taxon = Neurachne

|authority = R.Br.

|type_species = Neurachne alopecuroidea

|type_species_authority = R.Br.

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Neurachne, commonly called mulga grass, is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2954352#page/64/mode/1up Brown, Robert 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 196] in Latin[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00417.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora][http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:412685#tab_classification Atlas of Living Australia ]

The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia’ records that Neurachne Munroi is "a very rare grass, peculiar to the back country, and only found amongst Mulga scrubs (Acacia aneura and allied species)." Found in the Interior of South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales.{{cite book | author=J. H. Maiden | year=1889 | title=The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania | publisher= Turner and Henderson, Sydney | url=https://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLNSW_ALMA21105097830002626&context=L&vid=SLNSW&search_scope=EEA&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US}}

; Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=425806 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Neurachne The Plant List search for Neurachne]

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• Neurachne alopecuroidea R.Br.
• Neurachne lanigera S.T.Blake
• Neurachne minor S.T.Blake
• Neurachne munroi (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
• Neurachne queenslandica S.T.Blake
• Neurachne tenuifolia S.T.Blake

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; formerly included

see Isachne Panicum Paraneurachne Sacciolepis Thyridolepis Zygochloa

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• Neurachne clementii - Paraneurachne muelleri
• Neurachne meneritana - Isachne polygonoides
• Neurachne mitchelliana - Thyridolepis mitchelliana
• Neurachne montana - Panicum torridum
• Neurachne muelleri - Paraneurachne muelleri
• Neurachne multiculmis - Thyridolepis multiculmis
• Neurachne paradoxa - Zygochloa paradoxa
• Neurachne peekelii - Sacciolepis indica
• Neurachne torrida - Panicum torridum
• Neurachne xerophila - Thyridolepis xerophila

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