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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Cyperaceae
Gahnia trifida

Citation: Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:89 (1805).

Synonymy: Cladium trifidum

Common name: Cutting grass, coast saw-sedge.

Description:
Stems rigid, usually over 1 m high; leaves inrolled, with long subulate drooping points, very scabrous on the margins and lower face.

Panicle erect, narrow, interrupted, 20-40 cm long; spikelets brown, 4-5 mm long, in dense oblong spike-like clusters with the secondary bracts obscured, usually 1-flowered; glumes mucronate or shortly awned, scabrous on the keel, the flowering glume as long as the others; stamens 4 or 5.

Nut obovoid-oblong, bluntly acute, gradually cuneate, c. 2 x 1 mm, bluntly trigonous with very convex sides, almost rounded, blackish, covered with longitudinal rows of a transparent shiny fine reticulate-papillose layer.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: throughout the year.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

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