Family: Cyperaceae
Isolepis platycarpa
Citation:
Sojįk, Cas. Nįr. Mus., Odd. Prir. 148:194 (1980).
Synonymy: Scirpus platycarpus S.T. Blake, Proc. R.Soc. Qld 51:180 (1940).
Common name: None
Description:
Small tufted annual, usually less than 8 cm high; stems setaceous; leaf blades to 3 cm long and setaceous, sometimes absent; bract sometimes longer than the cluster, similar to the leaves, to 5 mm long.
Spikelets 1 or 2, often solitary, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5-3.5 mm long (similar to those of I. hookeriana but rather broader and less distinctly angled); glumes c. 1.5 mm long, wilh spreading points, the sides somewhat opaque.
Nut suborbicular in outline, obtuse on both ends, 0.7-0.8 mm long and wide, the side next to the axis nearly flat, the back very strongly convex but scarcely angled except at the base, black or brown or whitish and opalescent, coarsely and prominently hexagonally reticulate in longitudinal rows of a transparent papillose layer, about half as long as the glume.
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. All States except the N.T. and Qld. New Zealand.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — April.
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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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