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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Cyperaceae
Lepidosperma gladiatum

Citation: Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:15 (1805).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Sword rush, coast sword-sedge.

Description:
Stems rigid, over 1 m high, 8-20 mm broad, biconvex with sharp edges; leaves similar but flatter.

Panicle dense, thick, or the lower branches spreading, 4-15 cm long; spikelets pale-brown, 6-8 mm long, with or without a barren flower below the fertile one.

Nut ovoid, subacute, very shortly cuneate into a short stipe, c. 3 x 1.5 mm, irregularly wrinkled, straw-coloured distally, brown basally, shiny; scales spongy, acute to acuminate, white, to about a third of the length of the nut.

Distribution:  Grows along sandy coasts.

S.Aust.: EP, YP, SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T. and Qld.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: throughout the year.


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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