- echidnae
- Gk echidna, viper. Leaf-blades rigid and pointed, characters which they share with the teeth of a viper. Furthermore, in the vegetative state the plant resembles the echidna, a spiny Australian marsupial (Echidna hystrix) whose vernacular name is “echidna”
Etymological dictionary of grasses . H. Trevor Clifford, Peter D.. 2012.