''Eulalia aurea'' is a grass (in the
Poaceae family).
It was first described as ''Andropogon aureum''
[ in 1804 by Bory de Saint-Vincent][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 Kunth
Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850), also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist. He is known for being one of the first to study and categorise plants from the American continents, ...
.[Kunth, K.S. (1830), Revision des graminees Part 22: 359]
The Walmajarri
The Walmadjari (Walmajarri) people, also known as Tjiwaling and Wanaseka, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Name
The two names reflect different Walmadjari preferences. Their western bands accept ...
people of the southern Kimberley call it "Water grass" and .
Distribution
It is found in southern Africa
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, Madagascar
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, south east Asia, and Australia.
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 GBIF
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Flora of Madagascar
Flora of Southeast Asia
Flora of Australia
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