Cyperus gunnii
Citation:
Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 2:80 (1858).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Flecked flat-sedge. (Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 161.)
Description:
Densely tufted perennial, with a short woody rhizome; stems rather stout, rigid, rarely under 60 cm high, acutely triquetrous, smooth, c. 2 mm wide; leaves rather numerous, about as long as the stem, 3-5 mm broad, complicate, striate, with serrulate margins, the sheaths of the outer ones very broad and hardened; bracts similar to the leaves, 3 or 4, the two lowest very long (30-100 cm long).
Umbel compound, with 5-8 slender but rather short rays; spikelets numerous in dense clusters, brown or bright-brown, 8-14-flowered, linear or linear-lanceolate, 5-10 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, subcompressed; rhachilla scarcely winged; glumes not dense, at length spreading at the tip, rather obtuse in profile, keeled and strongly nerved on the sides, 2-2.7 mm long; style 3-branched.
Nut linear-oblong or very narrow-ellipsoid, acute, shortly cuneate to the wide base, 1.7-2 x c. 0.5 mm, trigonous, the angles rounded and sides flat to slightly convex, straw-coloured and with a very faint reticulatepapillose layer about two-thirds as long as the glume.
Distribution:
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All States except W.Aust. and the N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: most times except winter.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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