Family: Cyperaceae
Eleocharis geniculata
Citation:
Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 2:150 (1817).
Synonymy: Scirpus geniculatus L., Sp. Pl. 48 (1753).
Common name: None
Description:
Stolons absent; stems tufted, to 40 cm high and c. 0.7 mm wide; leaf sheaths rather rigid, strongly oblique and acute at the apex.
Spikelet ovoid to globose, subacute, usually reddish-brown, 4-5 mm long, 3.5-4 mm wide; glumes broadly ovate to broadly obovate, obtuse, membranous, keeled, more or less stained with brown with a pale or green keel, 1.8-2 mm long; stamens 2 or 3.
nut obovate with a rounded apex, 0.9-1 x 0.7-0.8 mm, biconvex, faintly ribbed on the margins, smooth, black, shiny; style base conical to ovate but usually depressed, to one-fifth as high as the nut and to one-third as wide; hypogynous bristles 6-8, somewhat coarse and scabrous, more or less as long as the nut.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: LE. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Warm parts of the world.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: probably in most months.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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