Citation: Hudson, Fl. Angl. 348 (1762).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Divided sedge.

Description:
Perennial, with long-creeping rhizomes; culms slender and wiry, usually less than 60 cm high, glabrous but rough towards the top, triquetrous; leaves 1.5-3 mm broad, usually shorter than the culms, usually more or less flat.

Inflorescence 1-2 cm long; the lowest bract glume-like, often long and narrow; spikes sessile, 3-7, the terminal spike bisexual; male flowers at the summit of the spikelets; female glumes ovate, shortly aristate, 3.5-4 mm long, brownish; utricle broadly ovoid, plano-convex, 3.5-4 mm long, many-veined, with a beak less than 1 mm long; nut suborbicular, c. 2 mm long.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe, Africa and Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Feb.

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

Biology: No text

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