Family: Cyperaceae
Carex gaudichaudiana
Citation:
Kunth, Enum. Pl. 2:417 (1837).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Stems acutely triquetrous with scabrous margins, to at least 60 cm high, but often small; leaves often longer than the stem, flat.
Spikes 3-8, cylindrical, 1.5-6 cm long, distinct, sessile except the lowest which is sometimes shortly pedunculate, the upper 1 or 2 male, the others female or shortly male at the top: lower bracts long, sometimes as long as the inflorescence; glumes with dark-brown sides, lanceolate, narrowly obtuse and often mucronate.
Utricles exceeding the glumes, 2-3 mm long, very flat, strongly nerved, ovate-elliptic indistinctly beaked, somewhat 2-fid at the tip; style branches 2.
Published illustration:
Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.C.T., fig. 77.
Distribution:
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Grows in wet places.
S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE. All States except W.Aust. and the N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
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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