Citation: Boeckeler, Linnaea 38:245 (1874).

Synonymy: Chapelliera laxa Nees in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 2:76 (1846); Cladium laxum (Nees) Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:405 (1878); Machaerina lcoca (Nees)Koyama, Bot. Mag., Tokyo 69:64 (1956); Cladium gracile J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 53:261 (1929); M. gracilis (J. Black) Koyama, Bot. Mag., Tokyo 69:63 (1956).

Common name: Lax twig-rush.

Description:
Stems 15-60 cm long, very flat with acute edges or one side somewhat concave, striate, 1-8 mm wide; leaves all basal, equitant and like the stems, acute; lowest bract and sometimes others with a short lamina like the leaves.

Panicle occupying about half the length of the plant, narrow, very loose and interrupted, 5-10 cm long or longer when the lower branches are distant; branches very slender, up to about 4 altogether in the axil of each bract, more or less divided; spikelets solitary, scattered, 1- or 2-flowered, 4-5 mm long; glumes acute or nearly so, puberulent or glabrous.

Nut obovoid-pyriform, 2-2.5 x 1-1.2 mm, light-brown, dull, with 3 narrow smooth ribs; style base prominent but rather short, depressed-ovoid, somewhat hispid.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Closely related to B. preissii of W.Aust.

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