Family: Cyperaceae
Carex divisa
Citation:
Hudson, Fl. Angl. 348 (1762).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Divided sedge.
Description:
Perennial, with long-creeping rhizomes; culms slender and wiry, usually less than 60 cm high, glabrous but rough towards the top, triquetrous; leaves 1.5-3 mm broad, usually shorter than the culms, usually more or less flat.
Inflorescence 1-2 cm long; the lowest bract glume-like, often long and narrow; spikes sessile, 3-7, the terminal spike bisexual; male flowers at the summit of the spikelets; female glumes ovate, shortly aristate, 3.5-4 mm long, brownish; utricle broadly ovoid, plano-convex, 3.5-4 mm long, many-veined, with a beak less than 1 mm long; nut suborbicular, c. 2 mm long.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL. W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas. Native to Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Sept. — Feb.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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