Family: Cyperaceae
Carex bichenoviana
Citation:
Boott ex Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 2:101 (1858).
Synonymy: Carex pumila Common name: None
Description:
Rhizome long-creeping; stems 25-50 cm high, prominently triquetrous; leaves and bracts long and narrow, the latter overtopping the inflorescence and the lowest with a distinct sheath.
Spikes few to more than 20, 6-20 male, sessile, and close together in a terminal cluster, the others (c. 3) female or partly male at the top, sometimes pedunculate and sometimes compound; glumes purple-brown or blackish, acute, mucronate; utricle 4.5-5 mm long and longer than the glumes, scarcely stipitate, ovoid-trigonous, with a short conical prominently 2-fid beak, thick and corky, smooth, obscurely nerved; style branches 3.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 156.
Distribution:
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Grows in moist places.
S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, SE. N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — Feb.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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