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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Cyperaceae
Schoenus latelaminatus

Citation: Kük., Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 44:88 (1938).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Medusa bog-rush.

Description:
Pale-green lax annual, 10-25 cm high; leaves and bracts flat, grass-like, usually with pale sheaths; culms without nodes below the inflorescence.

Spikelets pale, or occasionally the glumes reddish on the side, 0.9-1.2 cm long, subsessile ot pedicellate in clusters of usually 1-3 in the axils of the leafy bracts; hypogynous bristles minute or absent.

Nut broadly oblong or elliptic in outline, acute-apiculate, rather abruptly cuneate to the prominent base, 1.2-1.5 rarely 2 x 0.8-1 mm, subequally trigonous with raised ribs in cross section, sides convex, pale-green (including the ribs), dark-spotted or fuscous and more or less shiny at maturity, coarsely reticulately pitted in longitudinal rows, about a third of the length of the glume. (Description largely from Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.C.T.)

Distribution:  Grows in temporarily wet places.

S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

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