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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Cyperaceae
Carex fascicularis

Citation: Sol. ex Boott in Hook. f., Fl. Nov. Zel. 1:283 (1853).

Synonymy: C. pseudocyperus sensu R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 243 (1810), non L.

Common name: Tassel sedge.

Description:
Stems to over 50 cm high, acutely triquetrous, scabrous on the margins; leaves nearly as long, to 8 mm broad; bracts leafy, much exceeding the inflorescence, with scarcely any or no sheaths.

Spikes 3-6, pedunculate, drooping, all close together at the top of the stem, cylindrical, 3-6 cm long, the terminal one male, the others female; glumes with scabrid awns; utricles divergent or reflexed, obtusely trigonous, prominently nerved, ovoid-ellipsoid, on rather long stipes and with a long narrow-spreading deeply 2-fid beak with spreading teeth, in all 4-5 mm long; style branches 3.

Distribution:  Grows in wet places.

S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.   All States.   New Zealand and adjoining areas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct. — April.


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