Dried plants. Missouri Botanical Garden. Plants from Rockhampton, Qld (1864-1866), collector AG Dietrich

Dried plants. Missouri Botanical Garden. Plants from the Philippines, collector Hugh Cumish

Dried plants. Missouri Botanical Garden. Plants from Africa, collector Theodore Kotschky

Common Name

Family

Cyperaceae

Notes

Annual sedge to 20cm tall. Leaves basal, with a sheath at the base, as long as the flowering stems or much shorter, to 2mm wide, flat, hairless. Spikelets 5-20mm long, 2-3mm wide, pale yellow to red-brown, with 0 petals, arranged at the tops of the flowering stems in a single cluster, or digitate with 2-6 branches consisting of spikelets arranged in spikes, the whole subtended by 2-6 narrow leaf-like bracts, 2-4 of which are longer than the flower clusters. Grows in damp places. Rare SA. Endangered Vic. Threatened list Vic.

Description in Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J., (Ed) (1994) Flora of Victoria Volume 2: 304-305