Citation: Schrader, Anal. Cap. Cyp. 7 (1832).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial, 30-50 cm high, with extensive horizontal rhizomes becoming woody with age and covered with dark-brown or purple-brown scales, lacking tubers; from the rhizomes vertical leafy shoots arise; leaves grass-like, numerous, green with 3 prominent white nerves, as long as or shorter than the stems, 10-15 mm broad, with loose sheaths; stems 3-angled.

Inflorescence subtended by 7-11 leaf-like bracts with 3 white veins and 9-19 cm long, consisting of a compound umbel more or less as long as the bracts, with many filiform rays; spikelets in clusters of 1-6 (often single), 4-16 mm long, c. 1 mm broad, c. 15-42-flowered, linear or linear-oblong, compressed, brown; flowering glumes to 1 mm long; style branches 3; stamens 3.

Nut ellipsoid, acute, longcuneate to the wide base, c. 1 x 0.4 mm long, acutely 3-angled, with concave sides, white, smooth, fairly dull, nearly as long as the glume.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL.   N.S.W.   New Zealand; native to South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Feb., March.

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

Biology: No text

Uses: Grown as an ornamental and occasionally escaping but probably not truly naturalised.

Author: Not yet available