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Family: Cyperaceae
Cyperus bulbosus

Citation: Vahl, Enum. Pl. 2:342 (1805/6). Nalgoo. (Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 157.)

Synonymy: C. andrewsii C.B. Clarke, Kew Bull. add. ser. 8:12 (1908).

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial, 15-35 cm high, producing numerous ovoid shining tunicated bulbils at the ends of capillary rhizomes, the latter very soon disintegrating; stems slender, triquetrous; leaves numerous, almost setaceous, about as long as the stem.

Inflorescence of rather few spikelets arranged in a simple or compound spike or short corymb, with the rays and bracts distant from one another, one or more of the lower bracts longer than the inflorescence; spikelets reddish to pallid, linear or somewhat lanceolate, 10-15 (rarely to 30) mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, 10-28-flowered; rhachilla broadly winged; glumes not prominently keeled, several-nerved, c. 5 mm long; style 3-branched.

Nut oblong-cuneate to obovoid-ellipsoid, 1.3-1.5 x c. 0.8 mm, trigonous with concave or convex sides, grey-brown-red, with a whitish transparent very faint reticulate-papillose layer; tip a small pyramidal point at the style base; less than one-third the length of the glume.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, SL.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.   Africa and Asia.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: March, April and July.


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