Citation: Roemet & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 2:77 (1817).

Synonymy: Chaetospora axillaris R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 233 (1810); Schoenus axillaris (R. Br.) Poiret, Encycl. Suppl. 2(1):251 (1811), nom. illegit.; Scirpus foliatus Hook. f., London d. Bot. 3:414 (1844); Schoenus foliatus (Hook. f.)S.T. Blake, Proc. R. Soc. Qld 51:48 (1940); Schoenus subaxillaris Kük., Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 44:89 (1938).

Common name: Leafy bog-rush.

Description:
Weak slender plant, sometimes shortly creeping; stems tufted, prostrate and ascending, to 20 cm long, filiform, sometimes branched, leafy throughout; leaves very narrow, flat, flaccid, mostly 1-3 cm long, 2-4 uppermost acting as bracts and gradually shorter, but usually longer than the spikelets, somewhat curved.

Spikelets sessile or shortly pedicellate, 1-3 together in the upper axils, lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, 1- or 2-flowered; glumes glabrous, sometimes scabrous on the keel, 2 lowest empty; stamens usually 3 (rarely 2); hypogynous bristles 6 or sometimes fewer, capillary, reddish to white, slightly shorter to slightly longer than the nut.

Nut ovoid or broadly ellipsoid, acute, suddenly contracted to the base, c. 1 x 0.5 mm, slightly trigonous, the angles ribbed from the base to the tips, sides convex, white to brown, smooth, rather shiny or not, about half the length of the glume.

Distribution:  Grows in damp places. S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T.   New Zealand; New Guinea and the Philippines. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Feb.

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

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