Common Name

Wiry Centrolepis

Family

Centrolepidaceae

Notes

Grass like annual forb to7cm tall. Leaves clustered at the base of the plant, with a sheath at the base, 0.3-1.2cm long, less than 1mm wide, linear, cylindrical, rigid, hairless. ‘Flowers’ small, brown, in cylindrical heads of 1-3 'flowers' at the tops of the stems.

Differs from Centrolepis eremica and Centrolepis glabra in that there are 1-3 'flowers' per head. Differs from Centrolepis glabra in that the 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~polygyna