Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:416 (1878).

Synonymy: Cladium deustum R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 237 (1810).

Common name: None

Description:
Rather stout, 30-50 cm high, more or less viscid, articularly the younger parts; leaves and bracts with woolly orifices to the sheaths (the wool is sometimes inconspicuous at the mouth of the sheaths); the blades rigid, with involute margins, scabrous downwards, becoming subulate and almost pungent-pointed in the upper part.

Panicle narrow, 20-30 cm long, with erect distant branches; spikelets numerous in spike-like clusters with prominent secondary bracts; the primary bracts long, with black sheaths; glumes acuminate, the outer ones ciliate; stamens 5 or 6.

Nut somewhat obovoid, obtuse or acute, gradually cuneate to the obtuse base, 1.8-2.5 x c. 1 mm, trigonous with convex sides, straw-coloured, often brown in the upper part, smooth, rather dull, with fine longitudinal rows of a transparent very faint reticulate-papillose layer.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic. 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

Biology: No text

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