Family: Cyperaceae
Isolepis hystrix
Citation:
Nees, Linnaea 7:496 (1832).
Synonymy: Scirpus hystrix Thunb., Prod. Pl. Cap. 17 (1794).
Common name: Awned club-rush.
Description:
Small tufted annuals usually less than 5 cm high; stems slender, striate; leaf blades flat or plano-convex, striate, less than 1 mm broad, as long as or longer than the inflorescence; bract leaf-like but broad below, usually spreading, to 2 cm long.
Spikelets 1 or few, bristly, broad, to 5 mm long, 20-30-flowered; glumes 2.5-3.2 mm long, green, with the broad-ovate lower part often reddish-tinged, terminating in a spreading attenuate portion at least as long as the basal part; stamens 2; style branches 3.
Nut trigonous, with one face broader and sometimes convex, greenish-black, much smaller than the glume, not shiny, c. 0.6 mm long.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: GT, MU, SL, KI, SE. N.S.W.; Vic. Native to South Africa.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Oct. — Nov.
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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:
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Author:
Not yet available
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