Citation: Boeckeler, Flora 41:416 ( 1858).

Synonymy: Scirpus subtilissimus (Boeckeler) S.T. Blake, Contrib. Qld Herb. 8:20 (1969); Schoenoplectus merrillii Palla, Allg. Bot. Zeit. 17:Beil. 3 (1911); Scirpus merrillii (Palla)Ktik. ex Merrill, Enum. Philipp. Pl. 1:117 (1923).

Common name: Salaisoi.

Description:
Slender perennial herbs to 12 cm high; rhizome long-creeping, horizontal; stems tufted, very slender; leaves filiform, channelled, c. 0.5 mm broad, longer or shorter than the culms; bract erect, leaf-like, c. 1-3 cm long.

Spikelets 1-3, ovoid, 2-3 mm long, c. 5-7-flowered; glumes 0.8-1.3 mm long, broad, reddish, with a green keel and a short mucro; stamen usually 1; style branches 3.

Nut Obovoid, obtuse and abruptly apiculate, shortly cuneate, c. 0.8 x 0.5-0.6 mm, trigonous with slightly fibbed angles, sides concave to flat, a light straw-colour, rather dull, two-thirds to three-quarters as long as the glume.

Published illustration: Costin et al. (1979) Kosciusko alpine flora, pl. 99.

Distribution:    Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand; Malesia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: March (1 record).

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

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