Citation: Kunth, Enum. Pl. 2:417 (1837).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Stems acutely triquetrous with scabrous margins, to at least 60 cm high, but often small; leaves often longer than the stem, flat.

Spikes 3-8, cylindrical, 1.5-6 cm long, distinct, sessile except the lowest which is sometimes shortly pedunculate, the upper 1 or 2 male, the others female or shortly male at the top: lower bracts long, sometimes as long as the inflorescence; glumes with dark-brown sides, lanceolate, narrowly obtuse and often mucronate.

Utricles exceeding the glumes, 2-3 mm long, very flat, strongly nerved, ovate-elliptic indistinctly beaked, somewhat 2-fid at the tip; style branches 2.

Published illustration: Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.C.T., fig. 77.

Distribution:  Grows in wet places. S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.   All States except W.Aust. and the N.T. Conservation status: native 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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