Citation: L. Johnson & Cutler, Kew Bull. 28:383 (1974).

Synonymy: Calorophus minor Hook. f., Fl. Nov. Zel. 1:267 (1853); Restio laleriflorus R. Br., Prod. FI. Nov. Holl. 247 (1810), partly; C. ("Calostrophus') lateriflorus F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:87 (1873); Hypolaena lateriflora (F. Muell.) Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:238 (1878). , Calorophus lateriflorus, Colostrophus lateriflorus, Restio lateriflorus

Common name: None

Description:
Stems slender, branched and flexuose.

Sheathing bracts and floral bracts with short subulate spreading blades and woolly at the orifice; male spikelets sessile, distant along the wavy branches, c. 4 mm long, with 2 linear floral bracts not exceeding the spikelets at the base, glumes narrow, not imbricate; flowers 2 or 3 in each spikelet, perianth-segments 6, hyaline, flat, c. 3 mm long, the anthers exserted; female spikelets few, narrow, distant, sessile, 4-6 mm long, 1-flowered, the perianth-segments 4-6, hyaline.

Nut almost globular, c. 1.5 mm long.

Distribution:  Sometimes forms tangled masses in swamps. S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Sept. — 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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