Citation: Boeckeler, Linnaea 38:241 (1874).

Synonymy: Fuirena rubiginosa Sprengel, Fl. Hal. Mant. 29 (1807); Melancranis rubiginosa (Sprengel) Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 1:236 (1824); Cladium rubiginosum (Sprengel) Domin, Biblthca Bot. 85:476 (1915); Machaerina rubiginosa (Sprengel) Koyama, J. Fac. Sci. Un. Tokyo 3, 8:123 (1961); Schoenus rubiginosus Sol. ex Forster f., Fl. Insul. Aust. Prod. 89 (1786), nom. nud.; Cladium glomeratum R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 237 (1810); Gahnia glomerata (R. Br.) F. Muell., Key Syst. Vict. Plant. 1:455 (1888); not Machaerina glomerata (Gaudich.) Koyama, Bot. Mag., Tokyo 69:63 (1956).

Common name: Soft twig-rush.

Description:
Stems subterete or somewhat angled or compressed, 30-100 cm high, usually with 1 node above the base; rhizome 2-4 mm diam., fibrous; basal leaves rather wider than the stems, more or less compressed, occasionally indistinctly septate, the stem leaves with long sheaths and short channelled blades, all the blades pungent-pointed; bracts still shorter, red-brown, the upper ones more or less membranous to scarious.

Panicle narrow, dense or interrupted and with a zig-zag rhachis, 5-15 cm long; spikelets reddish or brown, in erect ovoid clusters close together along the branches, 3-5-flowered; glumes acuminate, ciliate, nut elliptic-oblong, 3-4 x 1.5-1.7 mm, trigonous at first, orange-yellow to reddish-brown, smooth, shiny, crowned by the depressed or shortly pyramidal puberulent grey or black style base.

Distribution:    All States;.   New Zealand and Asia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year.

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

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