About Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton
Sporobolus fertilis, commonly called Bloomsbury grass, is a grass species. It is native to the Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, China, Japan, and Malaysia. It is an invasive species in Australia, where it is called giant parramatta grass. This plant was first published in scientific literature under the name Agrostis fertilis in 1854, in Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel’s Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum. Steudel was a German botanist.