Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Cotter River, ACT

Common Name

Quillwort

Family

Isoetaceae

Notes

Perennial or annual fern, resembling a small grass or sedge, to 32cm tall, usually aquatic. Leaves basal, with a broad sheath at the base, 5-32cm long, narrow cylindrical, with a long point.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 27

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Isoetes~muelleri