Citation: F. Muell. ex Boeckeler, Linnaea 38:327 (1874).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Wire rapier-sedge.

Description:
Stems 30-100 cm high, c. 1 mm wide, angular or strongly biconvex, with narrow acute more or less scabrous edges; leaves much flatter, flexible, 1-1.5 mm wide, striate, sometimes reduced to points.

Panicle reduced to a simple or usually branched spike, 2-6 cm long; bracts short; spikelets distinct from one another, 6-8 mm long; lower glumes obtuse, mucronate, upper more acute and acuminate.

Nut oblong-ovoid, retuse or apiculate, shortly cuneate into a distinct short and wide stipe, c. 4 x 1.5 mm, straw-coloured and wrinkled or olive-green and smooth, shiny, distinctly crowned by a whitish cup which is produced into 3 more or less distinct longitudinal white ribs reaching to the base; scales conspicuous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spongy, white, nearly half as long as the nut.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU, SL, KI, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic. 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: Resembles Schoenus carsei.

Author: Not yet available