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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:  Grows in moist places.

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

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct. — Feb.


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