Common Name

A Centrolepis

Family

Centrolepidaceae

Notes

Grass like annual forb to 4.5cm tall. Leaves clustered at the base of the plant, with a sheath at the base, 0.4-1.5cm long, less than 1mm wide, linear to thread-like, rigid, hairless, often with fine points. 'Flowers' tiny (less than 3mm across), brown, in oval heads of 4-10 'flowers' at the tops of the stems.

Differs from Centrolepis glabra and Centrolepis polygyna in that there are 4-10 'flowers' per head.

Differs from Centrolepis glabra in that the leaves are rigid, and the leaf like bract under each flower head is curved and much longer than the flower head.

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