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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Cyperaceae
Carex iynx

Citation: Nelmes, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 155:279 (1944).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Coarse tufted perennial, with short ascending tough woody rhizomes forming large clumps, base of culms covered with the fibrous remains of old leaf sheaths.

Spikes 1 to several at the nodes of the culm, mature female spikes usually 5-8 mm diam., the lowermost drooping on long slender peduncles longer than the spikes, upper 1-4 spikes predominantly male.

Utricles to 6 mm long, including the conspicuous long slightly incurved beak which is c. 2 mm long, glabrous except setulose on the margins above, strongly nerved on the abaxial faces and much exceeding the glumes; glumes of the female flowers yellow-chestnut with hyaline margins, 5-7.5 x 2.5-4 mm, the strong mid-nerve usually produced into a short awn. (Description from Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.C.T.).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: not recorded.


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