''Tribolium uniolae'' is a grass in the subfamily

Danthonioideae Danthonioideae is a mainly southern hemisphere subfamily of grasses, containing the single tribe Danthonieae and one unplaced genus, with altogether roughly 300 species. It includes herbaceous to partially woody perennial or annual (less common) ...

of the Poaceae, native to

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, South Africa. It was first described in by Carl Linnaeus, the younger, as ''Cynosurus uniolae'', but in 1985 was transferred to the genus, '' Tribolium'', by Stephen Andrew Renvoize. In Australia, it is an introduced weed in both

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and

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, where it generally grows on disturbed ground and flowers from October to December.

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References

{{Poaceae-stub Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus the Younger Plants described in 1782