Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 240 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Thick twist-rush.

Description:
Stems 50-60 cm high or more, erect from a creeping rootstock, reiterately branched, the branches stiff, plano-convex; leaves reduced to blackish closed pointed sheaths, distant along the stems.

Spikelets brown, narrow, 12-15 mm long, erect, usually 2 from the same sheath of which 1 is pedicellate; glumes stiff, acuminate, outer empty ones 4 or 5, then a male flower, and above it a fertile flower with 5 stamens; style branches 3, but 1 or 2 often 2-fid.

Nut elliptic-oblong in outline, c. 5 mm long, a light yellowish-brown, crowned with the larger persistent pubescent base of the style.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — March.

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

Biology: No text

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