Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Scale shedder.

Description:
Rigid wiry perennial, c. 30 cm high; rhizomes thick, creeping, woolly; stems simple, rigid but flexuose in the upper part, with distinct brown annular scars from the sheathing bracts.

Flowers dioecious, both male and female in many-flowered spikelets which form terminal globular heads 5-7 mm diam.; glumes brown, truncate-mucronate; perianth-segments 5, the 2 outer concave, keeled, the 3 inner ones flat; style simple.

Nut small, ovoid indehiscent, 1-seeded.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU, SL, SE.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: mainly Oct. — Jan.

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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