Family: Cyperaceae
Schoenus carsei
Synonymy: S. monocarpus J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 52:225 (1928); Cladium monocarpum (J. Black)J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 678 (1929); Tetraria monocarpa (J. Black)J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 58:168 (1934); Machaerina monocarpa (J. Black)Koyama, Bot. Mag., Tokyo 69:64 (1956).
Common name: None
Description:
Rhizome thick, short, scales dark-brown; stems densely tufted, very slender, 30-75 cm high, terete, nodeless; leaves mostly basal, the sheaths glabrous, dark-brown, the inner with subulate blades 1-4 cm long.
Inflorescence paniculate, panicle narrow, loose, 4-12 cm long, branches slender, clusters of 3 or 4 from the sheaths of the bracts; bracts shorter than the branches, like the leaves; spikelets linear-lanceolate, 5-9 mm long, mostly with 1 perfect flower; glumes glabrous, 3-6 lowest empty; no hypogynous bristles.
Nuts cylindric-ovoid, c. 1.5 x 0.8 mm, very slightly 3-angled by 3 vertical ribs from the circular base to the circular tip at the base of the permanent stout style, white, shiny, smooth, about a third of the length of the glume.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: EP, SL, KI, SE. Vic. New Zealand.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — April.
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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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