Citation: S.T. Blake, Proc. R. Soc. Qld 52:56 (1941).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Very slender annual, to 15 cm high, with filiform sometimes scabrous stems and leaves; leaf blades shorter than the stems, the sheaths usually bearded at the orifice but sparsely so.

Inflorescence umbellate, with a few slender rays longer than the bracts, rarely reduced to a single spikelet; spikelets usually 2-4, lanceolate or linear, mostly 6-8 mm long; glumes 3-3.5 mm long, strongly keeled, with the keel running out into a recurved point, glabrous on the margins, minutely ciliolate in the upper part; stamens 3.

Nut turbinate, 0.6-1 x c. 0.6 mm, acutely triquetrous, whitish, transversely finely wrinkled, attenuated basally into a very short stipe-like base, tip rounded, crowned with the minute persistent ovoid or conical style base.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: ?May, ?Oct.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: A specimen from the LE region of S.Aust. was tentatively identified as B. turbinata by Blake. An unidentified specimen of Bulbostylis with an umbellate inflorescence has also been collected in the EP region.

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