Citation: J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 678 (1922).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Dwarf plant, 4-15 cm high; leaf blades terete and more or less channelled, smooth, rigid, pungent-pointed, erect, 2-7 cm long, c. 0.5 mm wide, much exceeding and almost concealing the short stems and small spike-like panicle.

Spikelets subsessile, c. 4, 6-7 mm long, pale-coloured to brownish, partly enclosed in the sheaths of the leafy bracts, 1- or 2-flowered; flowering glumes about as long as the 3 or 4 outer empty ones; stamens 6.

Nut obovoid, umbilicate, gradually cuneate to a wide base, 2.8-3 x c. 1.3 mm, light-straw-coloured, shiny.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: KI. Conservation status: native Flowering time: recorded Nov. — Jan., April.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available