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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Cyperaceae
Carex chlorantha

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 242 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial, with slender smooth and glabrous culms usually less than 30 cm high, arising at intervals along the long-creeping rhizomes; leaves soft and usually shorter than the culms; bracts glume-like but awned.

Spikes sessile, fewer than 10, arranged in a short terminal inflorescence less than 3 cm long, terminal spike bisexual; male flowers at the summit of the spikelets.

Utricle compressed, with ciliate edges and a short 2-fid beak.

Distribution:    N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: not available.


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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: There is no specimen under this name in AD and the records may have resulted from misidentifications.

Author: Not yet available


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