Citation: S.T. Blake, Contrib. Qld Herb 8:27 (1969).

Synonymy: Cladium gunnii Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 2:95 (1858); Machaerina gunnii (Hook. f.) Kern, Acta Bot. Neerl. 8:266 (1959).

Common name: Slender twig-rush.

Description:
Stems slender, subterete, with a furrow and several fine striations running throughout their length, 30-100 cm high, 1-1.5 mm diam.; leaves all basal, similar to the stems with subulate tips but shorter, sometimes all reduced to sheaths; bracts very short, subulate.

Panicle narrow, 5-20 cm long, interrupted, not dense; branches erect, the lower ones distant; spikelets few on each branch, rather distant, brownish or greyish, 6-8 mm long, 1-flowered; glumes acute, spreading in fruit, the margin almost glabrous and, in the upper ones, becoming incurved upwards.

Nut ovoid, 2.5-3.5 x 1.3-1.8 mm, when mature reddish-brown to blackish, smooth, more or less rugulose but not punctulate; apex about half to a third as long as the body; style base bluntly conical, brown, dull.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   New Guinea and New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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