Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:215 (1878).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Common (or erect) scale-rush.

Description:
Stems simple, erect, 40-60 cm high, from a creeping scaly rhizome; sheathing bracts distant, 10-25 mm long, appressed, with a short filiform blade, those under the inflorescence looser.

Flowers clustered in compound distant pale-brown spikes, forming a narrow interrupted panicle 3-12 cm long; upper floral bracts and glumes acuminate or obtuse; perianth-segments 6, c. 3 mm long, acute; capsule c. 1.5 mm long and broad.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   ?W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Sept. — May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available