Common Name

Tiny Flat -sedge

Family

Cyperaceae

Notes

Introduced annual sedge to 8cm tall. Leaves with a sheath at the base, shorter than the flowering stems, threadlike, bristly. Spikelets 4-9mm long, 2-2.5mm wide, pale, greenish, or brownish, 1-4 spikelets comprising a single digitate cluster at the tops of the stems, subtended by 1-2 leaf-like bristly bracts, the lower bract appearing as though a continuation of the stem, so that the cluster of spikelets appears as if on the side of the stem. Grows in damp places.

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