Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 259 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Broad-leaved rush.

Description:
Perennial; stems leafless, slender, 10-30 cm high; leaves radical, glabrous, solid, flat, or slightly channelled, grass-like, 3-8 mm broad; leaf-base without lobes.

Flowers brown, in globular clusters 5-7 mm diam., on the branches or in the forks or a terminal umbel-like unequally branched cyme, sometimes reduced to a single terminal cluster; perianth-segments only 1.5-2.5 mm long.

Capsule ovoid, as long as the perianth; stamens 3; seeds ovoid, without tails.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T.   New Zealand and South America. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly in summer.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available