Family: Cyperaceae
Isolepis stellata
Citation:
K.L. Wilson, Telopea 2:169 (1981).
Synonymy: Scripus slellatus C.B. Clarke, Kew Bull. add. ser. 8:29 (1908).
, Scirpus stellatus Common name: Star club-rush.
Description:
Slender tufted annual, to 6 cm high; stems rather rigid but very slender; leaf blades setaceous, to 2.5 cm long or reduced to short points; bract 1, erect or more or less thrown to one side, usually exceeding the inflorescence and to 7 mm long.
Spikelets up to 8 in the cluster, rarely less than 3, densely packed and stellately spreading, oblong or ovoid-oblong, very obtuse, 3-4 mm long, greenish, several-flowered; glumes rather spreading, the tip mucronate and also spreading, keel stout and broad, green sides stained with brown, each with 1 or 2 slender nerves; stamen 1; style 3-branched.
Nut obovoid, acute to abruptly apiculate, shortly cuneate, c. 0.6 x 0.4-0.5 mm, acutely 3-ribbed, sides nearly flat, dark-brown to blackish, closely reticulate, dull, about half as long as the glume.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: EP, NL, SL, KI, SE. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — Feb.
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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:
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Author:
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