Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 45 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual, to 50 cm high; stems slender to setaceous, triquetrous, solitary or tufted; leaves narrow, flaccid, shorter or longer than the stems; bracts 2-5, spreading, the lower longer than the inflorescence.

Umbel very variable, simple or compound or loose, or in small specimens reduced to a small cluster; spikelets in well-developed inflorescences distinctly spicately arranged, bright-brown or golden to greenish, linear, 6-30-flowered, 4-20 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide; rhachilla not winged; glumes somewhat distant, very broad and obtuse, obovate in profile, with a 3-5-nerved back and practically nerveless sides, 1.25-1.75 mm long; style 3-branched.

Nut somewhat obovoid, obtuse, cuneate, c. 1.3 x 0.8 mm, triquetrous with concave sides, brown, the angles shiny, base angular, tip pointed at the base of the style and black, about as long as the glume.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 162.

Distribution:  Grows especially in wet places. S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.   Africa and Asia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Jan. — June.

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

Biology: No text

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