Citation: C.B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6:651 (1893). (Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 155.

Synonymy: Scirpus barbatus Rottb., Descr. & Icon. 52 (1773); Fimbristylis barbata (Rottb.) Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:321 (1878); Stenophyllus barbatus (Rottb.) Cooke, Fl. Bombay 2:887 (1908); B. eustachii J. Black ex Eardley, Fl. S. Aust. 945 (1957).

Common name: None

Description:
Annual, with filiform glabrous stems, 2-20 cm high; leaves almost capillary, usually much shorter than the stems, the sheaths prominently bearded.

Inflorescence capitate or very rarely reduced to a single spikelet, with 1 or 2 bracts longer than it; spikelets usually numerous, erect-spreading, light-brown, oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 mm long; glumes ovate, acute, mucronate, c. 2 mm long, glabrous or somewhat puberulent, prominently keeled; stamen 1.

Nut obovoid-obcordate, 0.5-0.7 x c. 0.5 mm, acutely triquetrous with concave sides, whitish, smooth or almost so, base acute, tip rather wide and umbilicate, crowned by the minute brown to blackish style base.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, EP.   All mainland States except Vic.   Widespread in warm countries of the Old World and the U.S.A. Conservation status: native Flowering time: probably in all months.

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

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