Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:273 (1878).

Synonymy: C. clelandii J. Black, Proc. R. Soc. S. Aust. 48:253 (1924).

Common name: None

Description:
Densely tufted, erect perennial, 30-100 cm high; stems relatively slender, though up to 5 mm thick, obtusely trigonous, finely striate, smooth; leaves narrow, mostly complicate, more or less distinctly septate-nodulose; more than half as long as the stems; involucral bracts 2-5, most of them longer or much longer than the inflorescence and similar in nature to the leaves.

Umbel compound or decompound, spreading, with several to numerous slender rays to 14 cm long; secondary rays well developed; spikelets digitate or subdigitate, numerous in each cluster, linear, acute, rich-yellow or becoming paler and dingy, 5-15 mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, usually 10-40-flowered; rhachilla slender, practically unwinged; glumes rather distant and soon spreading, the margins then more or less involute, very obtuse and mucronate in profile, keeled and several-nerved, c. 1.5-2.1 mm long; stamens 3; style 3-branched.

Nut linear-oblong, 1.3-1.6 x 0.5 mm, obtusely trigonous with nearly flat sides, straw-coloured to light-brown, with a whitish transparent very faint reticulate-papillose layer, acuminate at the base of the style; more than two4hirds as long as the glume.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, GT.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: May (1 record).

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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