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Family: Cyperaceae
Eleocharis sphacelata

Citation: .

Synonymy: Heleocharis sphacelata

Common name: Tall spike-rush.

Description:
Rhizome creeping, very stout; stems close together, to 2 m high, 4-12 mm wide, hollow with transverse partitions; sheaths very thin, oblique at the orifice.

Spikelet cylindrical, 3-6 cm long; glumes flattish, obtuse, stiff, c. 8 mm long.

Nut broadly obovoid to orbicular, 2.2-2.5 x 1.8-2.2 mm, turgid, biconvex, margins somewhat ribbed, sides finely reticulate, light-yellowish to tawny or pale- brown; style base flat, triangular, more or less acuminate, the base thickened, about two-thirds as wide as the nut and sometimes slightly wider than its apex, from half, to as long as the nut; bristles 6-10, reaching to beyond the top of the style base.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. 0982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 166.

Distribution:  Grows in marshes.

S.Aust.: FR, MU, SL, KI, SE.   All States.   New Zealand; New Guinea.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Nov. — Feb.


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